Prolife feminism : yesterday and today

Derr, Mary Krane. (Added Author). MacNair, Rachel. (Added Author). Naranjo-Huebl, Linda. (Added Author).

Summary: Is abortion on "demand" a woman' right, or a wrong inflicted on women? Is it a mark of liberation, or a sign that women are not yet free? From Anglo-Irish writer Mary Wollstonecraft to Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, many eighteenth- through twenty-first-century feminists have opposed it as violence against fetal lives arising from violence against female lives. This vision of reproductive choice is called prolife feminism. This book offers essays on abortion and related social justice issues by the likes of suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. It not only documents the continuing evolution of prolife feminism worldwide, but more accurately represents the rich diversity of past and present women--and men--who have stood up for both mother and child.

Record details

ISBN: 141349577X
ISBN: 9781413495775
ISBN: 1413495761
ISBN: 9781413495768
Physical Description: print
474 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: Expanded 2nd ed.
Publisher: [Kansas City, Mo.] : Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Original edition published 1995 by Sulzburger & Graham Inc."--Title page verso. "To order additional copies of this book, contact: Xlibris Corporation ... www.Xlibris.com"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-444) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part One: 1790-1960. Introduction to Part One, Second Edition. Mary Wollstonecraft / "I Never Had A Taste of Human Kindness". Ganeodiyo (Handsome Lake) /From The Gaiiwo ("Good Message" or Code of Handsome Lake). Translated from the Seneca by Arthur Caswell Parker. Slavery: Violence Against Lives and Choices (Nineteenth Century). Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell / "Look at the First Faint Gleam of Life" Henry Clarke Wright and an Anonymous Correspondent / "My Womanhood Rose Up In Withering Condemnation". Susan B. Anthony / "A Dreadful Volume of Heart-Histories". Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Infanticide Infanticide and Prostitution- Dr. Anna Densmore French and a Teacher /"Much Delighted With The Valuable Instruction" by a Teacher. Matilda Joslyn Gage (Ka-ron-ien-ha-wi) / Is Woman Her Own? "No Compassion". Eleanor Kirk / What Will Become of the Babies? Mattie H. Brinkerhoff / Woman and Motherhood . Dr. Charlotte Denman Lozier / Restellism Exposed, by the Staff of the Revolution. Paulina Wright Davis / "A True Woman". On the Same Page: Dr. Juliet Worth Stillman Severance and A Mother. Dr. Rachel Brooks Gleason / "The Mental and Physical Misery Entailed". Sarah F. Norton / Tragedy-Social and Domestic. Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin / Press Justice. The Slaughter of the Innocents. Laura Cuppy Smith / How One Woman Entered the Ranks of Social Reform, or, A Mother's Story.