Reproductive Issues - Abortion - Health Policies, Gender & the Law, Women's Health - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Social Policies, Death, Grief & Bereavement, Social Psychology, Relationships - Interpersonal, Women's Studies - General

Re-Thinking Abortion

Name: Re-Thinking Abortion
Author: Mary Boyle
ISBN: 9780415163651

by Mary Boyle

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Overview

Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other than a health issue. Mary Boyle breaks this mould by considering the constructions of abortion in Western society. Drawing on ideas from sociology, politics, anthropology and law as well as psychology, she shows how abortion is linked to sexual behaviour and motherhood in the complex web of gender and power relations.
This book will be of interest to all those engaged with feminist thinking, whether as student, academic, or professional in practice.

About the Author, Mary Boyle

Mary Boyle is Head of the Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. She has worked as a clinical psychologist and published widely on social influences on psychological and psychiatric theory.

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Boyle (clinical psychology, U. of East London), examines many aspects of the abortion issue. Topics include the psychology of abortion, legislation, debates, the medical profession and abortion, contraception, social policies affecting abortion, and the experience of abortion. Boyle focuses on the gender imbalance caused by the fact that only women get abortions while primarily men decide whether or not they are legal, and argues that a psychological analysis of the abortion debate can increase understanding of why it arouses such strength and feeling. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.