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  • Abortion in the United States

    A Reference Handbook

    by Dorothy E. McBride, Jennifer L. Keys ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    Distinctive in its use of two disciplinary lenses—sociology and political science—Abortion in the United States provides a balanced scholarly analysis of the most salient issues in the pro-life/pro-choice debate.According to the CDC, more than 660,000 legal abortions were performed in the United States in 2013, yet despite these numbers, or perhaps because of them, the abortion war rages on in ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Women's Rights in the USA

    Policy Debates and Gender Roles

    by Dorothy E. McBride, Janine A. Parry ...
    Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged the public since the founding of the Republic. This fifth edition includes updates on all topics and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Politics of State Feminism

    Innovation in Comparative Research

    by Dorothy E. McBride, Amy G. Mazur ...
    The Politics of State Feminism addresses essential questions of women's movement activism and political change in western democracies. The authors—top gender and politics scholars—provide a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of government agencies and women's movements regarding women’s policy issues—if, how, and why they form a kind of state feminism.The central research questions are ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Abortion Politics

    Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Marianne Githens, Dorothy McBride Stetson ...
    Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross Cultural******Perspective focuses on current abortion policy and practice in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan and aims to provide a comprehensive, stimulating and balanced picture of current abortion policy in a cross-cultural perspective. The contributors deal with comparative abortion policy including recent developments in Ireland, Germany ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Controlling Women

    What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

    by Kathryn Kolbert, Julie F. Kay ...
    From two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights.Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them. Yet in the following decades these rights have been gutted by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools

    The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007

    Edited by Michael Manley-Casimir, Kristen Manley-Casimir ...
    The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during the first twenty-five years of the Charter by analyzing landmark rulings handed down from appellate ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • After Morgentaler

    The Politics of Abortion in Canada

    by Rachael Johnstone ...
    The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone examines the state of abortion access in Canada today, maps its historical ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Defenders of the Unborn

    The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade

    by Daniel K. Williams ...
    On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from a bunch of fire-breathing culture warriors. In Defenders of the Unborn, Daniel K. Williams reveals the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Politics of the Charter

    The Illusive Promise of Constitutional Rights

    by Andrew Petter ...
    Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General. In The Politics of the Charter, Petter assembles a set of his original essays written over three decades to provide a coherent critique of the political nature, impact, and legitimacy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Showing how ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Tearing Us Apart

    How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing

    by Ryan T. Anderson, Alexandra DeSanctis ...
    The political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized abortion.Hope in the Ruins of RoeNow that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion law to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America

    Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex

    by Christina Page ...
    A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates (historically) and pro-choice organizations (currently) have formed the bedrock of freedoms few Americans would choose to live ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Party of Death

    The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life

    by Ramesh Ponnuru ...
    Is the Democratic Party the “Party of Death”? If you look at their agenda they are. IT’S NOT JUST abortion-on-demand. It’s euthanasia, embryo destruction, even infanticide—and a potentially deadly concern with “the quality of life” of disabled people. If you think these issues don’t concern you—guess again. The Party of Death is roaring into the White House! In The Party of Death, Ponnuru details ... Read more

    $14.99 USD