The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement : The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States / Paul Saurette, Kelly Gordon.
2018
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The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement : The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States / Paul Saurette, Kelly Gordon.
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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©2016
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1 online resource (448 p.) : 8 figures
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
THE CHANGING VOICE OF THE ANTIABORTION MOVEMENT. The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
1. Introduction
Part I: Historicizing the Abortion Debate in North America
2. The History of the Abortion Debate in the United States
3. The Abortion Debate in the United States after Roe v. Wade
4. The History of the Early Abortion Debate in Canada
5. The Abortion Debate in Canada: Morgentaler and Beyond
6. Intermezzo: The History of the Abortion Debate in North America
Part II: The Changing Voice of the Contemporary Anti-abortion Movement
7. Shifting Strategies: A Little Old, a Lot New, a Bit of Both
8. Women Up Front, God Out Back: The Changing Anti-abortion Arguments
9. We're All Progressives Now: Rebranding the Movement
10. Anti-abortionism as the New Feminism: Reframing the Position
11. From Jezebel to Snow White: Moralizing through Narrativizing
12. "Pro-woman" Discourse in the United States
Part III: Conclusions and Implications
13. Theoretical Implications
14. Where to Now? Practical Implications for Abortion Rights Advocates
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Glossary of Key Legal and Political Events, Organizations, and Individuals
Appendix B. Historical Timeline - Abortion Politics in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States
Appendix C. Historical Timeline - Abortion Discourse in Canada and the United States
References
Index
Contents
Preface
THE CHANGING VOICE OF THE ANTIABORTION MOVEMENT. The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
1. Introduction
Part I: Historicizing the Abortion Debate in North America
2. The History of the Abortion Debate in the United States
3. The Abortion Debate in the United States after Roe v. Wade
4. The History of the Early Abortion Debate in Canada
5. The Abortion Debate in Canada: Morgentaler and Beyond
6. Intermezzo: The History of the Abortion Debate in North America
Part II: The Changing Voice of the Contemporary Anti-abortion Movement
7. Shifting Strategies: A Little Old, a Lot New, a Bit of Both
8. Women Up Front, God Out Back: The Changing Anti-abortion Arguments
9. We're All Progressives Now: Rebranding the Movement
10. Anti-abortionism as the New Feminism: Reframing the Position
11. From Jezebel to Snow White: Moralizing through Narrativizing
12. "Pro-woman" Discourse in the United States
Part III: Conclusions and Implications
13. Theoretical Implications
14. Where to Now? Practical Implications for Abortion Rights Advocates
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Glossary of Key Legal and Political Events, Organizations, and Individuals
Appendix B. Historical Timeline - Abortion Politics in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States
Appendix C. Historical Timeline - Abortion Discourse in Canada and the United States
References
Index
Summary
When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct?In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that the reality is far more complicated, particularly in Canada. Today, anti-abortion activism increasingly presents itself as "pro-women": using female spokespersons, adopting medical and scientific language to claim that abortion harms women, and employing a wide range of more subtle framing and narrative rhetorical tactics that use traditionally progressive themes to present the anti-abortion position as more feminist than pro-choice feminism.Following a succinct but comprehensive overview of the two-hundred year history of North American debate and legislation on abortion, Saurette and Gordon present the results of their systematic, five-year quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis, supplemented by extensive first-person observations, and outline the implications that flow from these findings. Their discoveries are a challenge to our current assumptions about the abortion debate today, and their conclusions will be compelling for both scholars and activists alike.
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