Abortion beyond the law : building a global feminist movement for self-managed abortion

Summary: "How feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe are making self-managed abortion available to all-and the strong transnational feminist movement they have built along the way"--

Record details

ISBN: 1804292060
ISBN: 9781804292068
Physical Description: 234 pages ; 21 cm
print
Publisher: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Abortion is unstoppable: the emergence of a transnational movement -- We are everywhere: the shape of the global movement for SMA -- "An act of solidarity between women": strategies to share information and enable safe abortions -- "Being an activist is not easy": managing security and sharing the risks -- "We have become the experts": scientific research, medical protocols, and movement knowledge -- "We all work together": building activist networks from the local to the global -- "In it for the long term": the lives of committed activists.