'contested Lives'—debate On Abortion

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'contested Lives'—debate On Abortion

...Faye D. Ginsburg approached the topic of the abortion debate in America by focusing on a single communityóFargo, North Dakota. The result of her study is a detailed analysis of the origins, consequences, and meanings of the abortion debate as it pertains to the women of Fargo.
The core of Ginsburg's book is what she refers to as the "procreation stories" that she obtained through interviews with both pro-li!fe and pro-choice activists. These thirty-five interviews reveal the meaning of the abortion conflict as it is grounded in individual lives and relationships. Due to these interviews, Ginsburg argues that the attitudes that propel this conflict are intrinsically connected to procreation events in the lives of these women. Ginsburg asserts that at the core of the abortion debate, she has located a tension that exists between domesticity and the workplace, and the changing cultural constructions that are evolving relative to gender and nurturance. In other words, Ginsburg examines the ideological standpoint of each groupóhow they each perceive the female gender role within the overall framework of society.
Ginsburg's attention was first focused...

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