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Abortion Politics, Women's Movements and the State : A Comparative Study of State Feminism - Dorothy McBride Stetson

Abortion Politics, Women's Movements and the State

A Comparative Study of State Feminism

By: Dorothy McBride Stetson (Editor)

Paperback | 1 November 2001

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This volume examines the impact of women's movements on the policy making processes determining abortion laws. It comprises the results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in 11 democratic states between the 1960s and 2000. The authors have developed a comprehensive research design to examine whether or not women's policy agencies (institutional machineries intended to improve the status of women) have functioned as necessary and effective allies of women's movements in their efforts to gain access to power arenas and secure abortion laws that coincide with feminist goals. The impact of women's movements is assessed in terms of their success in increasing the democratic representation of women generally and movement organizations specifically. The findings constitute a rigorous application of comparative methodology to assess explanations from social movement and democratic theory pertaining to variations in state feminism and movement success. The book aims to show the extent to which states, through establishment of women's policy agencies, have assisted, opposed, or ignored the demands of movement activists for access to power and for feminist abortion policies. Researchers have examined these questions in policy debates over four decades in 11 advanced industrial democracies: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.
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Interesting and worthwhile ... a formidable achievement ... empirically detailed, methodologically rigorous, and fruitful in informing social movement theory ... a fine research achievement. * American Political Science Review *

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Non-FictionPolitics & GovernmentCentral GovernmentCentral Government PoliciesSociety & CultureSocial Issues & ProcessesFeminism & Feminist TheorySocial GroupsGender StudiesGender Studies: Women and GirlsPolitical Science & TheorySociology & Anthropology
SociologyPolitical Control & FreedomsEthical Issues & DebatesEthical Issues of Abortion & Birth ControlPolitical PartiesLawLaws of Specific JurisdictionsConstitutional & Administrative Law

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