ISBN:
9781009452724
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (94 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
362.19888098
Abstract:
The past decade has seen sweeping changes in terms of reproductive rights in Latin America. This Element explains how feminist social movements have transformed the politics of abortion in Latin America.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Mobilizing for Abortion Rights in Latin America -- Contents -- 1 The Battle Over Abortion Rights in Latin America -- 1.1 Shifting Tides in Reproductive Rights -- 1.2 Existing Explanations of Abortion Politics in Latin America -- 1.2.1 Secularization -- 1.2.2 Public Opinion -- 1.2.3 The Left -- 1.2.4 Class -- 1.2.5 Issue Networks -- 1.2.6 Descriptive Representation -- 1.3 Mobilizing for Abortion Rights in Latin America -- 1.3.1 Ni Una Menos and the Making of a Social Movement Community -- 1.3.2 Two Pathways to Legalization -- 1.4 Roadmap -- 2 The Abortion Legalization Movement in Argentina -- 2.1 A Brief History of Reproductive Rights in Argentina -- 2.2 "Now That They See Us": The Emergence of Ni Una Menos -- 2.2.1 An Inclusive Feminist Movement -- 2.2.2 The Revolution of the Daughters -- 2.2.3 The Legacy of Nunca Más -- 2.3 From Ni Una Menos to Abortion Rights -- 2.3.1 Mobilizing a Massive Social Movement Community for Abortion Rights -- 2.3.2 An Old Frame Takes on New Resonance -- 2.3.3 A Countermovement Emerges: "Salvemos Las Dos Vidas" -- 2.4 Abortion Legalization in Argentina -- 3 A Green Wave? Diverging Pathways toward Rights Expansion and Retrenchment -- 3.1 The Long Road to Abortion Rights in Chile -- 3.1.1 Dictatorship and Reproductive Rights Retrenchment -- 3.1.2 Transition to Democracy and Feminist Silence on Abortion -- 3.1.3 Michele Bachelet's Limited Achievement: Therapeutic Abortions -- 3.1.4 Chile's Social Uprising and Feminism -- 3.1.5 Feminism and Abortion in Chile -- 3.1.6 Building a Feminist Collective in the Streets -- 3.2 Abortion Decriminalization in Mexico -- 3.2.1 Abortion during One-Party Rule -- 3.2.2 Mexico City's Legalization and Backlash -- 3.2.3 Abortion Legalization via the Judicial Path -- 3.3 Trending toward Abortion Criminalization in Nicaragua -- 3.3.1 The Case of Rosa.
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