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"Lawful Sins reorients reigning perspectives in medical and feminist anthropology that celebrate reproductive rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies. By challenging the application of a liberal rights framework to Mexican abortion, the book uncovers an apparently contradictory situation--the state's increased surveillance of women's bodies precisely in the context of their presumed liberation. Through an analysis of the politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program and an exploration of the limits of state care and recognition afforded there, the book offers a critical account of the relationship between reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, morality, and public healthcare"--
List of contents
Introduction
1. The Past Is Never Dead ... : Reproductive Governance in Modern Mexico
2. The Right to Sin: Abortion Rights in the Shadow of the Church
3. Being (a) Patient: The Making of Public Abortion
4. Abortion as Social Labor: Protection and Responsibility in Public Abortion Care
5. At the Limit of Rights: Abortion in the Extralegal Sphere
Conclusion
About the author
Elyse Ona Singer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.
