Beggars and Choosers

Beggars and Choosers

AngličtinaEbook
Solinger, Rickie
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
EAN: 9781466807525
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word choice--an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements. At first the distinction in language didn't seem to make much difference-the law seemed to guarantee both. But in the years since, the change has become enormously important.In Beggars and Choosers, Solinger shows how historical distinctions between women of color and white women, between poor and middle-class women, were used in new ways during the era of &quote;choice.&quote; Politicians and policy makers began to exclude certain women from the class of &quote;deserving mothers&quote; by using the language of choice to create new public policies concerning everything from Medicaid funding for abortions to family tax credits, infertility treatments, international adoption, teen pregnancy, and welfare. Solinger argues that the class-and-race-inflected guarantee of &quote;choice&quote; is a shaky foundation on which to build our notions of reproductive freedom. Her impassioned argument is for reproductive rights as human rights--as a basis for full citizenship status for women.
EAN 9781466807525
ISBN 1466807520
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Datum vydání 18. září 2002
Stránky 320
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
Autoři Solinger, Rickie
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