Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan. This book charts the political education of right-to-lifers, offering insights into social movement activism and conservatism in the late twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:353 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030017064

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Prudence Flowers is a lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. She teaches and researches United States history. She has published on first-wave feminism and the temperance movement in the late nineteenth century and on anti-abortion activism in the 1970s and 1980s.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Brief History of the National Movement to End Abortion.- Chapter 3: “A Prolife Disaster”: The Sandra Day O’Connor Nomination.- Chapter 4: “A Movement in Disarray”: The Hatch/Helms Fight.- Chapter 5: “Voodoo Demographics”: The Right-to-Life Movement Confronts the Population Establishment.- Chapter 6: Cultivating Reagan’s Abortion Legacy: His Last Years in Office.- Chapter 7: The Lessons of the Reagan Years.