This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, ‘German East Africa,’ Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.  

“Transcending Borders offers a riveting collection of essays that fully deliver on the editors’ commitment to provide a multidisciplinary investigation of abortion practices which is attuned to localized contexts while also examining the global power structures within which women’s lived experiences are embedded. Traversing time and place, they provide richly evocative and fine-grained analyses of reproductive struggles. Brilliantly chosen for their diversity and specificity, the essays are far more than the sum of their parts as the individual contestations are thematically linked by a deeply satisfying reproductive justice framework.” (Shoshanna Ehrlich, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)

“Exploring historical and contemporary issues in abortion and abortion politics from a range of disciplinary perspectives, Transcending Borders offers new transnational and transformative insights into the study of abortion. For all concerned with global and transnational inequalities, women's rights, and reproductive justice, this diverse and engaging collection will be required reading.” (Lori Chambers, Lakehead University, USA)

"Transcending Borders offers a riveting collection of essays that fully deliver on the editors' commitment to provide a multidisciplinary investigation of abortion practices which is attuned to localized contexts while also examining the global power structures within which women's lived experiences are embedded. Traversing time and place, they provide richly evocative and fine-grained analyses of reproductive struggles. Brilliantly chosen for their diversity and specificity, the essays are far more than the sum of their parts as the individual contestations are thematically linked by a deeply satisfying reproductive justice framework." (Shoshanna Ehrlich, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) "Exploring historical and contemporary issues in abortion and abortion politics from a range of disciplinary perspectives, Transcending Borders offers new transnational and transformative insights into the study of abortion. For all concerned with global and transnational inequalities, women's rights, and reproductive justice, this diverse and engaging collection will be required reading." (Lori Chambers, Lakehead University, USA)

Examines abortion from both historical and contemporary perspectives Offers a global focus on abortion practices Provides insight into how various fields approach the study of abortion and reproductive issues

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