| Re-thinking Abortion: Psychology, Gender and the Law Contributor(s): Boyle, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 041516365X ISBN-13: 9780415163651 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: "Re-Thinking Abortion" offers an incisive and original analysis of the abortion debates, abortion legislation and of women's and men's experience of abortion. In the past, abortion hasn't often been addressed in psychological theory. Mary Boyle finds, however, that among the law-making body (largely male) the concept of gender is central to the formulation of abortion legislation. In a detailed study of legislative debates spanning thirty years, she finds that many implicit assumptions about women and doctors underlie the content of abortion law. By acknowledging how social policy can be so influenced, we can begin to set some constructive ways forward. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control |
| Dewey: 363.46 |
| LCCN: 97-14933 |
| Series: Women & Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.07" W x 9.09" (0.61 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other than a health issue. Mary Boyle breaks this mould by considering the constructions of abortion in Western society. Drawing on ideas from sociology, politics, anthropology and law as well as psychology, she shows how abortion is linked to sexual behaviour and motherhood in the complex web of gender and power relations. |