Transcending borders : abortion in the past and present / Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

xiii, 344 pages ; 22 cm

"Every body has its own feminism" : introducing transcending borders / Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay and Shannon Stettner -- Abortion, infanticide, and a return to the gods : politics of pregnancy in early modern Japan / Eiko Saeki -- Unlocking the mysterious trunk : nineteenth-century American criminal abortion narratives / Tanfer Emin Tunç -- "Impossible to get to know these secret means" : colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in "German East Africa" / Daniel Bendix -- A "grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given" : abortion, Anglicanism, and debates about community composition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Andreana C. Prichard -- Troubled women : abortion and psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s / Lena Lennerhed -- "It is not your personal concern" : challenging expertise in the campaign to legalize abortion in France / Jennifer L. Sweatman -- Feminism, foetocentrisim, and the politics of abortion choice in 1970s Australia / Erica Millar -- We are all feminists now : how to pass an anti-abortion law in Australia / Kate Gleeson -- A provider's right to choose : a legal history / Mary Ziegler -- Abortion politics in a state in transition : contesting South Africa's 'Choice Act' / Rebecca Hodes -- Quiet contestations of Irish abortion law : abortion politics in flux? / Joanna Mishtal -- The landscape of unwanted pregnancy and abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982-2010 / Natalie L. Kimball -- Settler colonialism, Native American motherhood, and the politics of terminating pregnancies / Brianna Theobald -- Revelation and secrecy : women's social networks and the contraception-abortion process in Cameroon / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Sylvie Schuster -- The end of feminist abortion counseling? : examining threats to women's health / Elyse Ona Singer and Bayla Ostrach -- True threats : wanted posters, stalking, and the First Amendment / Mark Dorosin.