{"product_id":"abortion-and-womans-choice-the-state-sexuality-and-reproductive-freedom-9781804294833","title":"Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The best book I have read on the politics of reproduction. It raises complex theoretical and strategic questions, in a clear and accessible way, and represents an important breakthrough in feminist thinking.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Leslie Doyal, author of\u003ci\u003e What Makes Women Sick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis prize-winning study is the definitive work on the politics of abortion and fertility. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and in the process takes up issues of teenage sexuality, the politics of eugenics, and women's relationship to medical technology. The book's continuing relevance is a tribute to the author and a sad indictment of contemporary politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosalind Petchesky\u003c\/b\u003e is a political scientist and a leading theorist on international reproductive rights. Petchesky is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Individual's Rights and International Organization \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGlobal Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to her research contributions, she initiated and coordinates the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) in its work of assessing, across cultures, women's own views of their reproductive rights. She is also involved with the International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy in coordinating a multicountry, multisite comparative study of national and international policies affecting sexuality and sexual rights.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727492354322,"sku":"9781804294833","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e0727be-d0c6-478f-936c-748dc2c3d416.jpg?v=1734909859","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abortion-and-womans-choice-the-state-sexuality-and-reproductive-freedom-9781804294833","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}