Rethinking Abortion Rights After Dobbs

Privacy, Equality, and Reproductive Freedom
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-91917-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

This book offers a novel account of the normative foundations of abortion rights informed by political theory and feminist theory. Stanley revisits the debate between privacy and equality as rationales for abortion rights that erupted after Roe v. Wade. First, Stanley argues that we can reconceptualize privacy along feminist lines, contra its feminist critics.  Second, this reconceptualization allows us to see privacy and equality as essential allies and supplements to each other. When operating in tandem, privacy and equality provide a powerful theoretical and practical foundation not only for abortion rights but also for an expansive vision of reproductive justice informed by an intersectional understanding of the reproductive burdens endured by those multiply marginalized by gender, race, and class. This reproductive justice framework is the most promising basis for a powerful post-Dobbs political coalition seeking to restore and greatly expand the promise of reproductive freedom symbolically represented by Roe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanley, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Privacy Justification and its Critics.- Chapter 3: The Equality Alternative to Privacy.- Chapter 4: Privacy Reconsidered.- Chapter 5: Privacy and Equality: Toward Reproductive Justice.

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Stanley is Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. She is the author of (2012) and (2017).