Abortion and Democracy

Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America's Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region's recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas.

Auteur

Barbara Sutton is a professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, United States. She is also affiliated with the departments of Sociology and of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the same institution.

Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an assistant researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina. She is affiliated with the Gino Germani Research Institute and teaches sociology courses at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Contenu

1. Abortion Rights and Democracy: An Introduction * Barbara Sutton and Nayla Luz Vacarezza

   • Part I: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

     2. Abortion and Political Parties in the Southern Cone: Electoral Costs, Platforms, and Feminist Activists * Cora Fernández Anderson
   • 3. Feminist Lawyers, Litigation, and the Fight for Abortion Rights in the Southern Cone * Elizabeth Borland
   • 4. Orange Hands and Green Kerchiefs: Affect and Democratic Politics in Two Transnational Symbols for Abortion Rights * Nayla Luz Vacarezza
   • 5. Neoconservative Incursions into Party Politics: The Cases of Argentina and Chile * Juan Marco Vaggione and José Manuel Morán Faúndes

   Part II: Uruguay

   6. "Push and Pull": The Rocky Road to the Legalization of Abortion in Uruguay Alejandra López-Gómez, Martín Couto, and Lucía Berro Pizzarossa
   7. Women's Bodies, an Eternal Battlefield? Susana Rostagnol and Magdalena Caccia

Part III: Argentina

8. Rights and Social Struggle: The Experience of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion in Argentina María Alicia Gutiérrez
9. Social Media Debate on #AbortoLegal in Argentina Claudia Laudano

10. Transforming Abortion Access Through Feminist Community-Based Healthcare and Activism: A Case Study of Socorristas en Red in Argentina * Brianna Keefe-Oates

    • Part IV: Chile

11. Between the Secular and the Religious: The Role of Academia in the Abortion Debate in Chile Lidia Casas Becerra

12. Exploring Alternative Meanings of a Feminist and Safe Abortion in Chile * Lieta Vivaldi and Valentina Stutzin

    • Afterword. Embodying Democracy: Abortion Protest and Politics in the Southern Cone Sonia E. Alvarez