The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict - Hardcover

Staggenborg, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195065964 ISBN 13: 9780195065961

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

In the 1960s a movement led by family planning activists and feminists emerged to challenge state anti-abortion laws, resulting in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the U.S. Using interviews with past and present activists and historical records of movement organizations, this book traces the development of the "pro-choice" movement from its origins through the 1980s. The author shows how a small group of activists was able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to legalize abortion. Staggenborg argues that professional leadership and formalized organizational structures, together with threats from the anti-abortion movement, enabled the pro-choice movement to remain mobilized following legalization of abortion in 1973 and that these developments also facilitated grass-roots participation in the movement. This book will have particular significance for political sociologists, researchers, students, and others interested in women's studies and the abortion issue.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'The Pro-Choice Movement provides the most richly detailed and nuanced narrative of the strategies and tactics of prochoice organizations available. It is also one of the first works written by a scholar (rather than an activist, journalist, or freelance writer) chronicling activities of the prochoice movement.'

About the Author:

Suzanne Staggenborg, Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0195065964
• ISBN 13: 9780195065961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256