Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community

362 Pages·1989·50.98 MB·English

by  Faye D Ginsburg

Updated Edition
with a New Introduction
The Abortion
Debate in an
American
Community
FAYE D. GINSBURG
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CONTESTED
LIVES
The Abortion Debate
in an American Community
FAYE D. GINSBURG
UPDATED EDITION
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
RERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 1989 by
The Regents of the University of California
Introduction to the Updated Edition
© 1998 by the Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ginsburg, Faye D.
Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American
community /
Faye D. Ginsburg.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-520-21735-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Abortion—United States—Case studies.
2. Abortion services—United States—Case studies.
3. Pro-life movement—United States—Case
studies. 4. Pro-choice movement—United States-
Case studies. 5. Women social reformers-United
States—Case studies. I. Title.
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Contents
Introduction to the Updated Edition ix
Preface xxxiii
Acknowledgments xxxvii
1 Introduction 1
Part I: Abortion and the American Body Politic
2 From the Physicians' Campaign
to Roe v. Wade 23
3 The Rise of the Right-to-Life Movement 43
Part II: The Abortion Controversy in a Grass-roots
Setting
4 The First Phase of Conflict 61
5 The Clinic Conflict 76
6 Interpretive Battlegrounds 94
7 Angles of Incidence, Angles of Reflection 111
Part III: "Procreation Stories"
8 Interpreting Life Stories 133
9 The Pro-Choice Narratives 146
10 The Pro-Life Narratives 172
viii Contents
Part IV: Reconstructing Gender in America
11 La Longue Duree 201
12 Conclusion 212
Epilogue: Pro-Dialogue 222
Appendix: Female Moral Reform
Movements in America 227
Notes
249
Bibliography 287
Index
307