Abortion rights backlash

• Verfasst von: Brysk, Alison [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Abortion rights backlash
• Titelzusatz: the struggle for democracy in Europe and the Americas
• Verf.angabe: Alison Brysk
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-780049-2
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197800454.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Health and Wellbeing
• Sach-SW: Social services & welfare, criminology
• K10plus-PPN: 1925795217
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Alison Brysk adopts a global feminist perspective to show how threats to reproductive rights stem from a patriarchal political struggle over declining democracy, national identity, and widening inequality due to globalization. Tracing the diverging experiences of the politics of abortion in six cases across Europe and the Americas, 'Abortion Rights Backlash' transforms our understanding of human rights, the future of democracy, and the struggle for gender justice worldwide.

Abstract

"Reproductive self-determination is a defining human rights issue of our time. Yet reproductive rights are regressing even in developed democracies where women have secured public political participation and rising workplace equity. This book argues that abortion rights backlash represents a patriarchal political struggle for control of the private sphere-not lagging tradition. Gender rights backlash is driven by rising forms of nationalism reacting to unequal globalization-but contested by feminist movements that reclaim democracy. Extending the feminist principle that "the personal is political" to the global level, this study compares divergent outcomes in the parallel cases of Ireland vs. Poland, Argentina vs. Brazil, and California vs. Texas during the critical juncture of 2018-2022. Abortion rights backlash shows how the fate of reproductive rights-and the millions of lives that depend on them-is shaped by and reshapes democratic freedoms, representation, and institutions. This rich historical account of reproductive rights struggles on three continents transforms our understanding of human rights, the quest for collective identity, the contradictions of modernization, the changing role of religion, democratic backsliding, and the global dynamics of social movements. The study of the struggle for reproductive rights in a changing world yields important lessons for the quest for gender justice worldwide"-- Provided by publisher