Fragmented Landscape - Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.

Sommario

Introduction

Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton



PART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICS

Chapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Women's Right to Abortion

Christina Zampas

Chapter 2. Freeing Abortion in Sweden

Annulla Linders and Danielle Bessett

Chapter 3. Women's Liberation and the 'Right to choose': Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and Switzerland

Kristina Schulz and Leena Schmitter

PART  II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICS

Chapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life Activism

Claudia Mattalucci

Chapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox Key

Sonja Luehrmann

Chapter 6. Still a Woman's Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium's Abortion Struggles

Karen Celis and Gily Coene

PART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICES

Chapter 7. 'Good doctors do not object': Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists' Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in Italy

Silvia de Zordo

Chapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrid's Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant Women

Beatriz Martín Aragón

Chapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in Norway

Mette Løkeland

PART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICES

Chapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceausescu's Romania

Lorena Anton

Chapter 11. Quietly 'Beating the System': The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion Ban

Joanna Mishtal

Chapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland

Robin Whitaker and Goretti Horgan

Afterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze Right

Lynn M. Morgan

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Info autore

Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology. Her research interests encompass contraception, abortion and conscientious objection in Latin America and Europe. She has recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the impact on women of barriers to legal abortion in Europe. Her recent publications include Reproduction and Biopolitics: Ethnographies of Governance, "Irrationality" and Resistance (ed. with Milena Marchesi), published by Routledge in 2014.

Joanna Mishtal is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida. Her research examines reproductive rights, health, and policies in Poland, and in the context of EU governance. Her ethnography The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland (2015) received the Adele E. Clarke Book Award in 2017.

Lorena Anton is a Marie Curie Fellow in social anthropology at the University of Bucharest (2013-2017), where she develops a project on abortion governance in post-communist Romania. Recent publications include ‘On n'en parlera jamais de tout ça! Ethnographier la mémoire de l’avortement en Roumanie de Ceaușescu’, in Ethnologie Française (2014) and the ‘Cultural Memory’ entry in Protest Cultures: A Companion (eds. Fahlenbrach et al., Berghahn Books).

Riassunto

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Silvia (EDT)/ Mishtal De Zordo, Silvia Mishtal De Zordo, Silvia De Mishtal Zordo
• Con la collaborazione di: Lorena Anton (Editore), Joanna Mishtal (Editore), Silvia De Zordo (Editore)
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781789200713
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-071-3
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Protest, Culture & Society; Protest, Culture & Society
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche