Abortion Rights Backlash - The Struggle for Democracy in Europe and the Americas

In Abortion Rights Backlash, Alison Brysk adopts a global feminist perspective to show how threats to reproductive rights stem from a patriarchal political struggle over declining democracy, national identity, and widening inequality due to globalization. Tracing the diverging experiences of the politics of abortion in six cases across Europe and the Americas, Abortion Rights Backlash transforms our understanding of human rights, the future of democracy, and the struggle for gender justice worldwide.

List of contents

• List of Figures and Tables


• Acknowledgements


• Chapter 1: Abortion Rights Backlash


• Chapter 2: Contesting Reproduction


• Chapter 3: Contrasting Catholic Cases in Europe: Ireland vs. Poland


• Chapter 4: Abortion Rights in Latin America: Argentina vs. Brazil


• Chapter 5: Abortion Backlash in the United States: America vs. Itself


• Chapter 6: Defending Reproductive Rights in a Post-Liberal World


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Alison Brysk is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a past Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson Fellow and is the author or editor of 18 books on human rights, including her most recent work, The Struggle for Freedom from Fear (Oxford 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Alison Brysk, Alison (Distinguished Professor in the Depa Brysk, Brysk Alison
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2025
• EAN: 9780197800461
• ISBN: 978-0-19-780046-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, Comparative Politics, Gender studies, gender groups, Human rights, civil rights