Prolife feminism : yesterday and today

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Prolife feminism : yesterday and today / [edited by] Mary Krane Derr, Rachel MacNair, Linda Naranjo-Huebl.

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: 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.

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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.

Isabella Beecher Hooker / "My Mother's Heart Stirs Me To Immediate Reply". Elizabeth Edson Evans and Six Anonymous Women / "I Have Lost A Child". Eliza Bisbee Duffey / The Limitation of Offspring. Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham / "Two Wrongs Cannot Make a Right". "The Courage to Assert the Right to Her Own Body" / Lucinda Banister Chandler. Reproductive Wrongs Unto Death: Eugenic Strictures (Late Nineteenth -- Early Twentieth Centuries and Beyond). Mostly Missed Opportunities: The Woman Movement and Irish Catholic America (Mid- nineteenth -- Early Twentieth Centuries). The Nonviolent Power of the Maternal Body Politic / Jane Addams and Hull House. Frances E. Willard and the Anchorage Mission. A Plea for the Forgotten / by Frances E. Willard. "Women Helping Women," / the Staff of the Anchorage Mission. A Businesswoman's World-Mending Invention (Early 1900s). Dr. Caroline Hedger / The Relation of Infant Mortality to the Occupation and Long Hours of Work for Women. Dr. S. Josephine Baker / "The Action Should Be Equally Drastic"."The Prenatal Period Is Of Such Great Importance". Public Responsibility for Both Women and Babies: Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau. The Women's Cooperative Guild, Margaret Llewellyn Davies and Three Anonymous Guild Officers / "The Cause of the Evil Lies in the Conditions Which Produce It". Dr. Alice Hamilton / The Bollinger Case. Poverty and Birth Control. Rose Pastor Stokes / From The Woman Who Wouldn't. "There Is A Time Coming" / Hayes, Mary, Unborn Baby Turner, and Angelina Weld Grimké. Ethel Sturges Dummer / "Confidence In Life Force"- "Bring A Little Stone" / Bertha Pappenheim. Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst / "The True Mission of Society". Selectively Remembered? / Alice Paul. Dorothy Day / "Having A Baby". Laborers of Love: Midwives in Dispossessed Southern U.S. Communities (Twentieth Century).

Part Two: 1960s to Present. Introduction to Part Two, Second Edition, Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer / "Is It Too Late?". "And That's What We Are Talking About". Mrs. Hamer Wins A Victory For Single Mothers and Their Children. Graciela Olivarez / (From the Separate Statement of Graciela Olivarez to the President's Commission on Population and the American Future. Pat Goltz, Catherine Callaghan, and Cindy Osborne / Pat Goltz, Catherine Callaghan, and the Founding of Feminists for Life / Equal Rights. Daphne Clair de Jong / Feminism and Abortion: The Great Inconsistency / The Feminist Sell-Out. Rosemary Oelrich Bottcher / Free Choice Can Cost Others. Abortion Threatens Women's Equality. Jo McGowan / All Abortions are Selective. Grace Dermody / Trial and Trauma in New Jersey. Elizabeth McAlister / A Letter From a Women's Prison. Jane Thomas Bailey / Feminism : A Primer For Prolife Persons. Prolifers Too Exclusive. Discrimination Abortion: Self-Interest's Fatal Flaw. Juli Loesch Wiley / The Myth of Sexual Autonomy. Toward a Holistic Ethic of Life. Nat Hentoff / The Choice to Have Their Babies. Freedom of Speech Under President Clinton. The Censoring of Feminist History. Leslie Keech / The Sensitive Abortionist. Better Living (for men) Through Surgery (for women). Frederica Mathewes-Green / The Bitter Price of "Choice". Designated Unperson. The Euthanasia/Abortion Connection

Anne M. Maloney / Cassandra's Fate: Why Feminists Ought to be Prolife. To the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Rachel MacNair / Would Illegalizing Abortion Set Loose the Back-Alley Butchers? Parallel Cages: The Oppression of Men. Schools of Thought. Carol Nan Feldman Crossed / FFL Chapter Declines to Be Silenced. Kay Kemper / Enough Violence, Enough Hatred, Enough Injustice. Of Clarence and Anita and Willie and the Unknown Woman. Benazir Bhutto / We All Have a Right to Dream. Jennifer Ferguson / Abortion Issue Is One of Peace. Lorraine Hansberry and Bernadette Waterman Ward / Silencing Lorraine Hansberry. Serrin M. Foster / Eliminate, Through Practical Solutions, the Root Causes. One Victim or Two?Cheryl Long Feather (Hunkuotawin) / American Indians Regard Abortion As a Crime. Cecilia Brown / My Journey Into the Prolife Movement. Rus Cooper-Dowda / Greetings from Your Mom. Mary Meehan / ACLU v. Unborn Children. Mary Krane Derr / Pro-Every Life, Pro-Nonviolent Choice. Wangari Maathai / "Abortion is Wrong". / Linda Naranjo-Huebl / Room for One More