Her Body, Our Laws
By Michelle Oberman
By Michelle Oberman
By Michelle Oberman
By Michelle Oberman
By Michelle Oberman
By Michelle Oberman
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$18.00
Jan 08, 2019 | ISBN 9780807089071
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$27.95
Jan 16, 2018 | ISBN 9780807045527
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Jan 16, 2018 | ISBN 9780807045534
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Praise
“A brief but sensible entry in the abortion wars.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“For anyone interested in a fresh, balanced perspective on abortion law and women’s rights.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
“Drawing on her fascinating journeys into the abortion-hostile territories of El Salvador and Oklahoma, Oberman gives a penetrating analysis of both the power and limitations of laws governing abortion. This beautifully written and thought-provoking book offers the reader a novel way to consider the endless abortion conflict in the United States and elsewhere.”
—Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
“Oberman shows us that that in the midst of war, there is always space for listening. In her global journey through abortion laws and ideology, she brings us back to what really matters: sharing stories that help us recognize our common humanity. In our time of increasing polarization and politicization, Her Body, Our Laws demands a new path forward on abortion, one rooted in the difficult conversations we need to help us connect across our differences.”
—Aspen Baker, author of Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight and founder of Exhale
“This is a splendid and important book. Oberman brings a legal scholar’s attention to analysis of the abortion wars, along with a powerful gift for telling the stories of those intimately involved. In so doing, she illuminates not only what is at stake in our debates about abortion law but also what is missing from them.”
—Debra Satz, the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
“Oberman lays bare the messy and paradoxical realities of abortion that churn beneath the reductive debate over its legality. Stories gathered across borders and decades depict lofty ideals of morality and choice trampled by concrete oppressive conditions far more compelling than the letter of the law. As she astutely observes, abortion’s legal status matters little to those robbed by structural inequalities of dignity and volition in their reproductive experiences.”
—Jill E. Adams, founding executive director, Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, University of California–Berkeley School of Law
Table Of Contents
Author’s Note
Introduction
1. Beatriz and Her Case
2. Assessing the Impact of El Salvador’s Abortion Ban
3. The Reddest State: Oklahoma’s Long Battle Over Abortion Law
4. The Abortion-Minded Woman and the Law
5. America After Roe
Conclusion: Parting Thoughts on Leaving Behind the Abortion War
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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