Realidades y coyunturas del aborto

Realidades y coyunturas del aborto
Author: Susana Checa
Publisher: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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En las últimas décadas el tema del aborto, y en particular las luchas por su despenalización y legalización, han cobrado una creciente importancia en América Latina y el Caribe. Práctica confinada a la clandestinidad por siglos de sociedad patriarcal, tutelaje del Estado e influencia de la Iglesia católica, a menudo ha faltado el debate que permita establecer sus alcances sociales, humanos y éticos. La comprobación de que los abortos llevados a cabo en condiciones de higiene y contención médica adecuada van de la mano de las clases económicamente pudientes registrándose entre las clases desfavorecidas una abrumadora estadística de daños e incluso muerte por abortos mal realizados no hace más que añadir complejidad a un tema de por sí ríspido, más aún en países en procesos de desarrollo. Afortunadamente el tema ha cobrado visibilidad, ganando espacios entre los movimientos sociales, en los encuentros y foros y en las agendas legislativas. Las diversas propuestas y reivindicaciones abogan por ubicarlo en el marco de los derechos: sexual y reproductivo, y como uno de los derechos humanos fundamentales de las mujeres. Este libro convoca a destacadas profesionales, académicas y militantes que exponen la situación del problema en la región. En la primera parte, psicoanalistas y militantes feministas abordan esta cuestión desde la subjetividad femenina y la significación del aborto en la vida de las mujeres. La segunda trata la temática desde la perspectiva de la legislación, la política, la ética y la bioética, en el contexto nacional, regional e internacional. Las estrategias de despenalización y/o legalización del aborto en los últimos años son analizadas en la tercera parte, en particular en cuatro países de la región: Uruguay, Brasil, Colombia y México. Por último se recogen dos investigaciones llevadas a cabo en la Argentina y una en Uruguay, sobre las complicaciones derivadas de abortos mal realizados, y se recaba la positiva experiencia institucional, en un centro hospitalario de este último país, donde se aplica la consejería y atención pre y postaborto. Así, el libro da cuenta de la multiplicidad y complejidad de un tema como éste, sin simplificar sus aristas, constituyendo de esta manera un aporte significativo para el debate serio que toda la sociedad necesita.

Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America

Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America
Author: Cora Fernández Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2020-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000071421

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Although they share similar socio-economic and cultural characteristics as well as their recent political histories, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay differ radically in their abortion policies. In this book, Cora Fernández Anderson examines the role social movements play in abortion reform to show how different interaction patterns with state actors have led to three different policy outcomes: comprehensive abortion reform in Uruguay; moderate abortion reform in Chile; and no legal abortion reform in Argentina. Synthesizing a broad range of literature and drawing on in-depth field and archival research, she analyzes the strength of the campaigns for abortion reform, their relationships with leftist parties in power and the context of Church–state relations to explain this diverging trajectory in policy reform. A masterly analysis of how social movements, the power of institutions and Executive preferences have strong explanatory power, Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America is a perfect supplement for classes on gender and global politics.

Abortion and Democracy

Abortion and Democracy
Author: Barbara Sutton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000404463

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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. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.

Bodies in Crisis

Bodies in Crisis
Author: Barbara Sutton
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2010-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813555418

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Born and raised in Argentina and still maintaining significant ties to the area, Barbara Sutton examines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in that country during a period of profound social upheaval. Based primarily on women's experiential narratives and set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, Bodies in Crisis illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies. Sutton reveals the bodily scars of neoliberal globalization; women's negotiation of cultural norms of femininity and beauty; experiences with clandestine, illegal, and unsafe abortions; exposure to and resistance against interpersonal and structural violence; and the role of bodies as tools and vehicles of political action. Through the lens of women's body consciousness in a Global South country, and drawing on multifaceted stories and a politically embedded approach, Bodies in Crisis suggests that social policy, economic systems, cultural ideologies, and political resistance are ultimately fleshly matters.

Feminist Global Health Security

Feminist Global Health Security
Author: Clare Wenham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0197556930

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"Global health security, focused on a firefighting short-term response efforts fail to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. For example, the policy response to the Zika outbreak centred on limiting the spread of the vector through civic participation and asking women to defer pregnancy. Both actions are inherently gendered and reveal a distinct lack of consideration of the everyday lives of women. These policies placed women in a position whereby were blamed if they had a child born with Congenital Zika Syndrome, and at the same time governments required women to undertake invisible labour for vector control. What does this tell us about the role of women in global health security? This feminist critique of the Zika outbreak, argues that global health security has thus far lacked a substantive feminist engagement, with the result that the very policies created to manage an outbreak of disease disproportionately fail to protect women. Women are both differentially infected and affected by epidemics. Yet, the dominant policy narrative of global health security has created pathways which focus on protecting the international spread of disease to state economies, rather than protecting those who are most at risk. As such, the state-based structure of global health security provides the fault-line for global health security and women. This book highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist security studies concepts of visibility; social and stratified reproduction; intersectionality; and structural violence. It argues that it was no coincidence that poor, black women living in low quality housing were the most affected by the Zika outbreak and will continue to be so, until global health security is gender mainstreamed. More broadly, I ask what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control sustainability?"--

Constituting Equality

Constituting Equality
Author: Susan Hoffman Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2009-07-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521898366

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The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.

Destape

Destape
Author: Natalia Milanesio
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822987147

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Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were prohibited. With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms. The explosion of the availability and ubiquity of sexual material became known as the destape, and it uncovered sexuality in provocative ways. This was a mass-media phenomenon, but it went beyond this. It was, in effect, a deeper process of change in sexual ideologies and practices. By exploring the boom of sex therapy and sexology; the fight for the implementation of sex education in schools; the expansion of family planning services and of organizations dedicated to sexual health care; and the centrality of discussions on sexuality in feminist and gay organizations, Milanesio shows that the destape was a profound transformation of the way Argentines talked, understood, and experienced sexuality, a change in manners, morals, and personal freedoms.

IDS Bulletin

IDS Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2008
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN:

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Abortion Worldwide

Abortion Worldwide
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2009
Genre: Abortion
ISBN: 9780939253821

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"This report assesses progress over the past decade regarding the legality, safety and accessibility of abortion services worldwide. It summarizes developments in policy and documents recent trends in abortion incidence, with a focus on unsafe abortion. It also examines the relationship between unintended pregnancy, contraception and abortion, placing abortion within the broader context of women's reproductive lives." - p. 4.