Liza
> From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
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> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:29:46 -0800
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: abortion
>
> Someone on the list, Kelley, Jenny, Liza has to have read this.
> http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1832.html
>
> Kristin Luker
> Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
>
> California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy, 3
>
> "A lucid, fair-minded and, most importantly, convincing analysis of the
> contemporary debate about abortion. Based on extensive interviews with both
> pro-choice and pro-life activists, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
> demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the controversy derives its
> intensity not from differences of ideology or religion but from the
> radically antithetical social circumstances of the combatants. The book is
> a triumph of the sociologist's method."--Paul Robinson, New York Times Book
> Review
>
> "One of the most important sociology books of the decade. In addressing
> crucial public policy issues in an engrossing and accessible manner, she
> has attracted an attentive audience that extends far beyond academic
> sociology."--Marion S. Goldman, American Journal of Sociology
>
> DESCRIPTION (back to top)
>
> In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States,
> Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the
> abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and
> newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-
> life and pro-choice activists. She argues that moral positions on abortion
> are intimately tied to views on sexual behavior, the care of children,
> family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.
>
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR (back to top)
> Kristin Luker is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of
> California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She is also the author of
> Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996) and, with
> Jean Fox O'Barr, Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community
> through Women's Studies (1994).
>
> RELATED BOOKS (back to top)
>
> Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War, by William Saletan
> Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and
> Other Public Debates, by Georgia Warnke
> A Practical Companion to the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled
> on Issues from Abortion to Zoning, Updated and Expanded Edition of The
> Evolving Constitution, by Jethro K. Lieberman
> Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, Updated
> edition, by Faye D. Ginsburg
> Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000, by Rickie Solinger,
> editor
> When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States,
> 1867-1973, by Leslie J. Reagan
> The Abortionist: A Woman against the Law, by Rickie Solinger
>
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