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Author Simonds, Wendy, 1962-

Title Abortion at work : ideology and practice in a feminist clinic / Wendy Simonds.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
Summary How do feminist identity and abortion politics intersect? Specifically, what does feminism mean to women working to provide feminist health care and abortion services in the late 1980s and early 1990s? What are the ideological consequences and emotional tolls of doing such work in a hostile socio-cultural environment? Can feminism and bureaucracy coexist productively? How do feminists confront the anti-feminist opposition, from anti-abortion protesters outside to racism within feminist organizations?
These are the questions that drive Wendy Simonds's Abortion at Work. Simonds documents the ways in which workers at a feminist clinic construct compelling feminist visions, and also watch their ideals fall short in practice. Simonds interprets these women's narratives to get at how abortion works on feminism, and to show what feminism can gain by rethinking abortion utilizing these activists' terms. In thoroughly engaging prose, Simonds frames her analysis with a moving account of her own personal understanding of the issues.
Contents Feminist work: health care provision and identity -- Feminist abortion practice: getting graphic -- Anti-feminism personified: encounters with the enemy -- Feminist workplace? Examining contradictions in institutional ideology -- Purging the enemy within: feminist approach racism -- Feminism and (f)utility: assessing the future of procreative freedom.
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Subject Abortion -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
Abortion -- Social aspects.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Abortion.
Abortion services -- United States -- Employees -- Case studies.
Abortion services.
Employees.
Feminism -- United States -- Case studies.
Feminism.
Abortion, Induced.
Women's Health Services.
Feminism.
Social Environment.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Feminism.
Women's movement.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Simonds, Wendy, 1962- Abortion at work. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996 0813522447 (DLC) 95019055 (OCoLC)32546301
ISBN 0585026653 (electronic book)
9780585026657 (electronic book)
0813522447
0813522455