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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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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Ethical issues & debates

• Full title: Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement
• Subtitle: The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
• Author: Paul Saurette, Kelly Gordon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456
• EAN: 9781442615694
• ISBN: 1442615699
• ID: 09495010
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 678 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 229 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. February 2016

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