In this book Cornell develops a view of equality that provides a new perspective on the relationship of sexual difference to equality and of equality to freedom in the issues of abortion, pornography, and sexual harassment. This view of equality entails the equal protection of c…
This book addresses the legal and political programme needed for the recognition of sexual difference. Cornell shows that by affirming feminine sexual difference we should rethink the traditional conception of a public/private divide.
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights c…
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights c…
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. The author documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights c…
Ordinary abortion: common and clandestine -- Abortion storytelling: law, masterplots, and counter-narratives -- Abortion conversation: linguistics, politics, and law -- Abortion ethics I: whether -- Abortion ethics II: when -- Abortion politics: what are we really fighting about?
Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right 45 years ago, it still bears stigma - a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pre…
Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India. It includes an insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding un…
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection p…
"Although they share similar socio-economic and cultural characteristics as well as their recent political histories, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay differ radically in their abortion policies. In this book, Cora Fernández Anderson examines the role social movements play in aborti…