Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action

by Carol J. C. Maxwell

Book Overview

Maxwell offers an oral history of pro-life direct activism in America from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and desires that gave rise to this activism, sustained, and eventually undid it. Maxwell's interdisciplinary approach weaves theory from sociology, political science, anthropology, and moral philosophy. She pays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521669421
• ISBN13: 9780521669429
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"