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Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The history of the struggle for the right to abortion 2. The right to access safe abortion during the transition to a multiparty system and beyond 3. Reproductive and sexual rights - an activist perspective 4. "What do you think about abortion?" Slovenian public opinion on abortion in longitudinal and international perspective Conclusion
About the author
Ana Kralj is assistant professor of social work at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her main areas of research and teaching focus on migration, interethnic relations, nationalism, "othering" and gender studies.
Tanja Rener is emeritus professor of sociology of families and women's studies at the University of Ljubljana, where she teaches
Utopistics: alternatives of social development.
Vesna Leskošek is professor of social work at the University of Ljubljana. She teaches courses on gender and violence, care regimes and social movements. Her main research interests are poverty, social inequality, welfare state and gender, and her latest research project focuses on the poverty of women in old age.
Metka Mencin is assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include processes of subjectivation and identity construction in the context of dominance and subordination, neoliberal governmentality and the genealogy of critical psychology.
Mirjana Ule is professor of social psychology and founder of the Center of Social Psychology at the University of Ljubljana. Her main research topics are youth studies, gender studies, health studies, life course and identity studies, and studies of marginalization and discrimination.
Slavko Kurdija is senior scientific associate of social science methodology at the Center for Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research at the University of Ljubljana. He is also the national coordinator of the European Social Survey in Slovenia and the head of the Infrastructure Center (IC): Program for the Comparative Social Research, part of the Network of Infrastructure Centers at the University of Ljubljana.
