Description: In Abortion Rights Backlash, Alison Brysk adopts a global feminist perspective to show how threats to reproductive rights stem from a patriarchal political struggle over declining democracy, national identity, and widening inequality due to globalization. Tracing the diverging experiences of the politics of abortion in six cases across Europe and the Americas, Abortion Rights Backlash transforms our understanding of human rights, the future of democracy, and the struggle for gender justice worldwide.
Review Quotes: "The demise of Roe v. Wade was a legal and political earthquake, but as Alison Brysk shows in this important new volume, the end of a right to choose in America is just the beginning. A much-needed reminder that today's struggles over reproduction inevitably cross borders, this must-read book tells the story of a transnational backlash still shaping conflicts over reproduction - and leaves no doubt that abortion is not and never was a single issue." -- Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
"In Abortion Rights Backlash, Alison Brysk breaks new ground in linking the struggle for reproductive rights to highly gendered conflicts over national identity and the character of democracy in contexts of globalization and social and economic insecurity. This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how anti-feminist backlashes shape contemporary global politics." -- Kenneth M. Roberts, Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University