{"id":17527,"date":"2023-07-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=17527"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:50:52","slug":"readings-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/readings-on-abortion","title":{"rendered":"Readings on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an effort to further public understanding of abortion and Roe v. Wade, we are offering free access to these relevant journal articles and book chapters. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Open Access<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invisible Labours<\/a>: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aimee Louise Middlemiss<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this original and conceptually sophisticated project Middlemiss handles incredibly difficult interview material with extraordinary sensitivity and care. She does not shy away from difficult details but makes these often very raw stories more understandable through serious analytic work.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Linda L. Layne<\/strong>, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 54, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available introduction <\/a>and more with open access<\/mark>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ABORTION IN ASIA
<\/a><\/strong>Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Edited by Andrea Whittaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[This book] makes an empirically rich and important contribution to social scientific scholarship on induced abortion practices and will hopefully inspire further studies<\/em>.\u201d  \u00b7  Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie Sociale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1:<\/strong> Abortion in Asia: an overview<\/a>
Andrea Whittaker<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABORTION IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY TUNISIA
<\/a><\/strong>Politics, Medicine and Morality
Irene Maffi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaffi clearly describes the discourses and practices of clinic staff as a particular form of reproductive governance based on the history of Tunisia. However, the examples Maffi provides\u2014of stigmatizing language and admonishments by clinic staff against women who have multiple abortions or who become pregnant while not adhering to a birth control regimen\u2014are not unique to the Tunisian context. Indeed, the potential for comparisons between the Tunisian context and other biomedical settings is one of the major contributions of this work.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2.<\/strong> Female Bodies, Contraception and Reproductive Norms<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE FETUS<\/a><\/strong>
Biology, Culture, and Society
Edited by Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott<\/strong>
Foreword by Rayna Rapp<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume, offering a breadth of perspectives on the human foetus, appears at an important time. As the editors compellingly show in rich and complex detail, foetuses cannot exist apart from maternal bodies, and efforts to separate the two are further manifestations of the perennial struggle over who controls human reproduction.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 10.<\/strong> Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism<\/a>
Sonja Luehrmann<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CULTURES OF ABORTION IN WEIMAR GERMANY<\/a>
Cornelie Usborne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The author\u2019s] careful analysis of multiple discourses, makes clear how innovative the debate over abortion in Weimar Germany was. The popular cultural evidence and the medical discourse and the criminal law cases tell us somewhat different things about how abortion was understood at this historical moment; Usborne’s analysis and juxtaposition of these various meanings is masterful and persuasive<\/em>.\u201d  \u00b7  H-German<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2.<\/a><\/strong> Cultural Representation: Abortion on Stage, Screen and in Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE
<\/a><\/strong>Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe
Edited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like \u2018liberalization\u2019 is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1.<\/strong> Legal and Political Discourses on Women\u2019s Right to Abortion<\/a>
Christina Zampas<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SISTERS IN ARMS<\/a><\/strong>
Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968
Katharina Karcher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKarcher\u2019s study of militant feminism encourages scholars to re-think the history of feminism, and reflect on how changes to feminist politics and practice have shaped what is considered feminist, and the writing of feminism, more broadly.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 English Historical Review<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3.<\/strong> Militant Feminist Protest against the Abortion Ban<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further reading on reproductive healthcare<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NEW SERIES The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These ground-breaking edited collections seek to fill that gap by officially creating an \u201canthropology of obstetrics and obstetricians\u201d across countries and cultures\u2014including biopolitical and professional cultures\u2014so that a broad and deep understanding of these maternity care providers and their practices, ideologies, motivations, and diversities can be achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journal Articles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Berghahn Journals is offering free access<\/strong> to the following relevant articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN CULTURES <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Fight Abortion, Not Women\u2019: The Moral Economy Underlying Russian Feminist Advocacy<\/a><\/em>
Michele Rivkin-Fish (Vol. 27, Issue 2)
<\/a>DOI: 10.3167\/ajec.2018.270203<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publicly Funded Abortion and Marginalised People’s Experiences in Catalunya: A Longitudinal, Comparative Study<\/a><\/em>
Bayla Ostrach (Vol. 27, Issue 1)<\/a>
DOI: 10.3167\/aia.2020.270103<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes in Attitudes towards Marriage and Reproduction among People with a Genetic Illness: A Study of Patients with Thalassemia in Iran<\/a><\/em>
Sachiko Hosoya (Vol. 12, Issue 2)<\/a>
DOI: 10.3167\/ame.2016.120203<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOCIAL ANALYSIS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belonging: Comprehending Subjectivity in Vietnam and Beyond<\/a><\/em>
Tine M. Gammeltoft (Vol. 62, Issue 1)<\/a>
DOI: 10.3167\/sa.2018.620106<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY\/ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repealing Ireland’s Eighth Amendment: Abortion rights and democracy today<\/a><\/em>
Ela Dr\u0105\u017ckiewicz, Thomas Strong, Nancy Scheper\u2010Hughes, Hugh Turpin, A Jamie Saris, Joanna Mishtal, Helena Wulff, Brigittine French, Pauline Garvey, Daniel Miller, Fiona Murphy, Louise Maguire, and M\u00e1ire N\u00ed Mh\u00f3rdha (Vol. 28, Issue 3)<\/a>
DOI: 10.1111\/1469-8676.12914<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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