Abortion after Roe

by Johanna Schoen

Book Overview

Abortion is -- and always has been -- an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that followed, however, abortion became ever more politicized and stigmatized. Abortion after Roe chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469636018
• ISBN13: 9781469636016
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"