Fragmented Landscape

Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology. Her research interests encompass contraception, abortion and conscientious objection in Latin America and Europe. She has recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the impact on women of barriers to legal abortion in Europe. Her recent publications include Reproduction and Biopolitics: Ethnographies of Governance, "Irrationality" and Resistance (ed. with Milena Marchesi), published by Routledge in 2014.

“This edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like ‘liberalization’ is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time.” · H-Soz-Kult“This is an extremely important contribution to the literature on the policies and politics surrounding reproductive rights. It covers a range of historical developments and national contexts while developing multiple overarching themes in an accessible manner.” · Jennifer Merchant, Université Paris II

• IntroductionSilvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena AntonPART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Women’s Right to AbortionChristina ZampasChapter 2. Freeing Abortion in SwedenAnnulla Linders and Danielle BessettChapter 3. Women’s Liberation and the ‘Right to choose’: Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and SwitzerlandKristina Schulz and Leena SchmitterPART  II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life ActivismClaudia MattalucciChapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox KeySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Still a Woman’s Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium’s Abortion StrugglesKaren Celis and Gily CoenePART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICESChapter 7. ‘Good doctors do not object’: Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists’ Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in ItalySilvia de ZordoChapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrid’s Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant WomenBeatriz Martín AragónChapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in NorwayMette LøkelandPART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICESChapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceauşescu’s RomaniaLorena AntonChapter 11. Quietly ‘Beating the System’: The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion BanJoanna MishtalChapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern IrelandRobin Whitaker and Goretti HorganAfterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze RightLynn M. MorganBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex