Deirdre Duffy is Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Global Social Inequalities), Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century: Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities, (2017), and has written for The Conversation, The Irish Times and The Guardian.

Duffy’s theoretical positioning on trails urges the reader to understand their complexity beyond the infrastructure of how abortion trails operate and to examine the context in which they exist, the narrative framings that they represent, and their distinguishable political praxis. The book challenges the reader to consider the tension between state-sanctioned care, and its stagnant nature, and the agile, fluidity of abortion care outside of this, often provided within abortion trails and the political meanings tied into this tension about what abortion care is and should be as centred within a feminist praxis. The book is essential reading for those interested in abortion politics, reproductive justice and abortion care. It urges us to examine the positioning of abortion care and the unique place that abortion trails hold in providing abortion care that centres bodily autonomy.

• DedicationAuthor biographyAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: AccessChapter 2: Care Chapter 3: Prefiguring Abortion InfrastructuresChapter 4: Abortion Trails and the Narrative of Pro-ChoiceChapter 5: Pro-Choice Abortion Projects and the Problematic Politics of Tidying Abortion TrailsBibliographyIndex

Deirdre Duffy is Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Global Social Inequalities), Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century: Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities, (2017), and has written for The Conversation, The Irish Times and The Guardian.

Duffy’s theoretical positioning on trails urges the reader to understand their complexity beyond the infrastructure of how abortion trails operate and to examine the context in which they exist, the narrative framings that they represent, and their distinguishable political praxis. The book challenges the reader to consider the tension between state-sanctioned care, and its stagnant nature, and the agile, fluidity of abortion care outside of this, often provided within abortion trails and the political meanings tied into this tension about what abortion care is and should be as centred within a feminist praxis. The book is essential reading for those interested in abortion politics, reproductive justice and abortion care. It urges us to examine the positioning of abortion care and the unique place that abortion trails hold in providing abortion care that centres bodily autonomy.

• DedicationAuthor biographyAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: AccessChapter 2: Care Chapter 3: Prefiguring Abortion InfrastructuresChapter 4: Abortion Trails and the Narrative of Pro-ChoiceChapter 5: Pro-Choice Abortion Projects and the Problematic Politics of Tidying Abortion TrailsBibliographyIndex

Deirdre Duffy is Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Global Social Inequalities), Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century: Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities, (2017), and has written for The Conversation, The Irish Times and The Guardian.

Duffy’s theoretical positioning on trails urges the reader to understand their complexity beyond the infrastructure of how abortion trails operate and to examine the context in which they exist, the narrative framings that they represent, and their distinguishable political praxis. The book challenges the reader to consider the tension between state-sanctioned care, and its stagnant nature, and the agile, fluidity of abortion care outside of this, often provided within abortion trails and the political meanings tied into this tension about what abortion care is and should be as centred within a feminist praxis. The book is essential reading for those interested in abortion politics, reproductive justice and abortion care. It urges us to examine the positioning of abortion care and the unique place that abortion trails hold in providing abortion care that centres bodily autonomy.

• DedicationAuthor biographyAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: AccessChapter 2: Care Chapter 3: Prefiguring Abortion InfrastructuresChapter 4: Abortion Trails and the Narrative of Pro-ChoiceChapter 5: Pro-Choice Abortion Projects and the Problematic Politics of Tidying Abortion TrailsBibliographyIndex