The Pro-Choice Movement
Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:28th Jul '94
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In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win their cause--the legalization of abortion in 1973--and argues that professional leadership and formal organizational structures, together with threats from the anti-abortion movement and grass-roots support, enabled the pro-choice movement to remain an active force even after their primary goal had been achieved.
`The Pro-Choice Movement provides the most richly detailed and nunaced narrative of the strategies and tacticsof pro-choice organizations available. It is also one of the first works written by a scholar (rather than an activist, journalist, or freelance writer) chronicling the activities of the pro-choice movement.' American Political Science Review
`a meticulously researched exemplar of historical sociology' American Journal of Sociology
ISBN: 9780195089257
Dimensions: 233mm x 155mm x 20mm
Weight: 399g
256 pages