From the Clinics to the Capitol

How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-39703-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 304 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

How white nationalism and authoritarian populism have taken hold in America under the guise of opposing abortion.

Antiabortion stories, images, and policies have primed Americans to embrace attitudes and politics once deemed extreme. Abroad, US antiabortion tactics, personnel, and funds have contributed to a global rise of the Right.

From the Clinics to the Capitol is a scholar’s story of why and how abortion foes join other militants in waging war against the federal government. Reflecting on her thirty years of analyzing the intersections of race, reproduction, and right-wing movements, Carol Mason examines primary antiabortion sources that influenced political currents of the last fifty years. From Cold War conspiracism and apocalyptic fundamentalism to anti-statist terrorism, Tea Party populism, and MAGA insurrection, opposing abortion has come to imperil democracy worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mason, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Mason, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Otis A. Singletary Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, is author of several books about the rise of the Right since the 1960s.