No Real Choice - How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy

Informationen zum Autor KATRINA KIMPORT is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and a research sociologist with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. Her books include Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice analyzes the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. It illustrates how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. No Real Choice  2. Policies, Poverty, and the Organization of Abortion Care  3. Privileging the Fetus  4. Seeing Irresponsibility and Harm  5. Fearing the Experience of Abortion  6. Choosing a Baby  7. Toward Reproductive Autonomy  Methodological Appendix  Acknowledgments References  Index

Product details

• Authors: Katrina Kimport
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781978817913
• ISBN: 978-1-978817-91-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Families in Focus
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)