Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, Updated Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520217355)

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.

A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

Author: Faye D. Ginsburg
ISBN-10: 0520217357
ISBN-13: 9780520217355
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 359
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.00w x 0.88d