Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community PDF
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Updated Edition with a New Introduction The Abortion Debate in an American Community FAYE D. GINSBURG CONTESTED LIVES WITHDRAWN W6 fehger We pn>pe«rty of the Bd&t'oh Public Library. SWle of tftis 'material ^benefits the Library CONTESTED LIVES The Abortion Debate in an American Community FAYE D. GINSBURG UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1989 by The Regents of the University of California Introduction to the Updated Edition © 1998 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ginsburg, Faye D. Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community / Faye D. Ginsburg. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-520-21735-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Abortion—United States—Case studies. 2. Abortion services—United States—Case studies. 3. Pro-life movement—United States—Case studies. 4. Pro-choice movement—United States- Case studies. 5. Women social reformers-United States—Case studies. I. Title. HQ767.5.U5G56 1989 88-19887 304.6'6'0978413-dcl9 CIP Printed in the United States of America 123456789 for Benson and Pearl Ginsburg Contents Introduction to the Updated Edition ix Preface xxxiii Acknowledgments xxxvii 1 Introduction 1 Part I: Abortion and the American Body Politic 2 From the Physicians' Campaign to Roe v. Wade 23 3 The Rise of the Right-to-Life Movement 43 Part II: The Abortion Controversy in a Grass-roots Setting 4 The First Phase of Conflict 61 5 The Clinic Conflict 76 6 Interpretive Battlegrounds 94 7 Angles of Incidence, Angles of Reflection 111 Part III: "Procreation Stories" 8 Interpreting Life Stories 133 9 The Pro-Choice Narratives 146 10 The Pro-Life Narratives 172 viii Contents Part IV: Reconstructing Gender in America 11 La Longue Duree 201 12 Conclusion 212 Epilogue: Pro-Dialogue 222 Appendix: Female Moral Reform Movements in America 227 Notes 249 Bibliography 287 Index 307
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