Contested Lives

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The Abortion Debate in an American Community, Updated edition

Faye D. Ginsburg

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University of California Press
01 September 1998

Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Gender studies: women

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.

A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of ""Midwestern feminism"" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

By: Faye D. Ginsburg
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Updated ed
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520217355
ISBN 10: 0520217357
Pages: 359
Publication Date: 01 September 1998
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Faye D. Ginsburg is Professor of Anthropology at New York University, where she also directs the Center for Media, Culture, and History. Her other works include (with Rayna Rapp) Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction (California, 1995).

Reviews for Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, Updated edition

Sensitive and remarkably balanced. . . . Ginsburg's book implicitly challenges the view that the two movements--pro-choice and anti-abortion, or feminist and anti-feminist--are simply ideological opposites, one arising in hostile reaction to the other. It leads us to suspect strongly that . . . the two movements have common roots in anxieties widely shared by women in late-twentieth-century America. . . . Excellent. --Barbara Ehrenreich, The New Republic