Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present

by Shannon Stettner (Editor), Katrina Ackerman (Editor), Kristin Burnett (Editor)

This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, ‘German East Africa,’ Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.  

357 pages, Hardcover

Published April 5, 2017

Reviews

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Very thorough collection of essays about abortion worldwide, and many different subjects. A lot of knowledge.