The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement

The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9781442668768
ISBN-13 : 1442668768
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Book Synopsis The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement by : Paul Saurette

Download or read book The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement written by Paul Saurette and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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