Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2016-02-09
- Mått162 x 236 x 33 mm
- Vikt800 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor277
- FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
- ISBN9781442647619
- UtmärkelserWinner of Donald Smiley Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association 2016 (Canada)
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