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ABORTION POLITICS, WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STATE FEMINISM |
| By: |
Dorothy McBride Stetson (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£130.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199242658 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199242658 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 September, 2000 |
| Series: |
Gender and Politics |
| Pages: |
340 |
| Description: |
This book comprises the results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in 11 democratic states between the 1960s and 2000. The authors have developed a comprehensive research design to examine whether or not women's policy agencies( institutional machineries intended to improve the status of women) have functioned as necessary and effective allies of women's movements in their efforts to gain access to power arenas and secure abortion laws thatcoincide with feminist goals. The findings constitute a rigorous application of comparative methodology to assess explanations from social movement and democratic theory pertaining to variations in state feminism and movement success. |
| Synopsis: |
Abortion Politics, Women's Movements and the Democratic State examines the impact of women's movements since the 1960s on the policy-making processes determining abortion laws. The impact of women's movements is assessed in terms of their success in increasing the democratic representation of women generally and movement organizations specifically. Rather than asking 'how many women are in political office' this study asks 'to what extent are women included in the day to day process of making decisions?' Of special interest in this project is the extent to which states, through establishment of women's policy agencies, have assisted, opposed, or ignored the demands of movement activists for access to power and for feminist abortion policies. Researchers have examined these questions in policy debates over the last four decades in 11 advanced industrial democracies: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.The findings of this cross-national longitudinal study document that women's movements have been successful in gaining both substantive and descriptive representation on abortion policy in a majority of the 32 debates studied. The ability of women's policy offices to provide a necessary and effective linkage between women's movement activism and increased democratic representation in policy- making varies both cross-nationally and over time. The openness of policy subsystems and the status of the parties on the left are factors that interact with variations in movement cohesion and resources to account for these variations. |
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tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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