Artikel
Opposing Abortion to Protect Women : Transnational Strategy since the 1990s
Verfasst von:
Mason, Carol
info
in:
Signs
Chicago:
2019
,
665-692 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Mason, Carol info |
| In: | Signs |
| Jahr: | 2019 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| This article examines the transnational work that since the 1990s has increasingly opposed abortion in terms of protecting women. It therefore explores how pro-woman rhetoric is used to foster right-wing politics by way of, and beyond, the fight over abortion. Narratives depicting white women as dupes of a sordid, satanic system of abortion provision ignore the fact that most women report feeling relief—not grief, regret, or trauma—after terminating an unwanted pregnancy. To get a sense of the political and cultural influence that right-wing movements gain when they play the woman card, we must trace antiabortion collaborations transnationally. Reading representations of “woman” cross-culturally and intersectionally, this article analyzes the political collusions and cultural work achieved by depicting white women as victims of abortion. To do so I focus on three countries where national identity is especially bound up with whiteness and where abortion is particularly contested: Ireland, Russia, and the United States. This cross-cultural look at antiabortion collaboration reveals a transnational traffic in tactics, personnel, and funds that fuel right-wing politics and ideology and that therefore contribute to the global rise of the Right that characterizes the contemporary moment. | |
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