Abortion Rights, Reproductive Justice and the State

International Perspectives

Keertana Kannabiran Tella

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Routledge India
27 May 2024

Regional studies; Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Gender studies, gender groups; Health systems & services

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional concerns which animate these discourses.

Abortion as practice and rhetoric has historically drawn attention to the reproductive body in the public sphere. This book traces the continuities and discontinuities in the debates around abortion rights, and its relationship with the State, in different countries – US, Korea, China, Poland, Argentina, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, and New Zealand. It presents a comparative analysis that is grounded thematically around issues of race, class, technology, politics, and law, through interactions with institutionalized religion and the state. Central to this endeavour is an understanding of feminist mobilization on issues of abortion rights, in different cultural-historical contexts and its implications for the articulation of reproductive justice. For instance, it looks at the specific and diverse ways in which religion and culture intersect with state practice and national identities; the emergence of social action, activism and mobilization; the international politics of population control; and the place of reproductive justice and feminist resistance in processes of democratization.

Lucid and topical, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political science, human rights, policy around reproductive and women’s rights, law, and reproductive justice.

By: Keertana Kannabiran Tella
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032382876
ISBN 10: 1032382872
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Glossary. 1. Introduction 2. Justice at the threshold of rights: the construction of abortion rights in america 3. ‘If abortion is a crime, then the state is criminal’: trajectories in korea and china 4. ‘Take your rosaries out of our ovaries’: religion, activism and the state in abortion discourse in poland, argentina and ireland 5. Abortion in south asia: ‘choice’, language and identity in india and bangladesh 6. Race, democratic transition and access: abortion legality in south africa 7. Abortion in new zealand: precarious pasts, and contemporary change 8. Conclusion. Index.

Keertana Kannabiran Tella is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India with a specialisation in Development Studies. Her interests lie at the intersection of medical anthropology, law, human rights, international relations, gender, and feminism.