The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/05/2007
The abortion fight has long been a crucible of political tactics, with both sides employing strategies ranging from litigation to civil disobedience to outright violence. Anti-abortion activists have arguably been more tactically innovative than their pro-choice peers, and ""Opposition and Intimidation"" looks at how their use of political harassment fits - or doesn't - with more conventional political efforts in the struggle over abortion. Author Alesha Doan's insightful interviews and observations powerfully portray anti-abortion activists' relationship to the objects of their protest. Her portrait is augmented by thorough quantitative analysis of harassment's role within the movement's multi-tiered strategy - a strategy which Doan shows has forced a decline in the availability and popularity of abortions. Using her unique study of the anti-abortion movement as a model, Doan extends her findings to propose a novel and valuable theory of the new politics of harassment.
- ISBN:
- 9780472069750
- 9780472069750
- Category:
- Political activism
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 30-05-2007
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- The University of Michigan Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.35kg
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