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[Introduction] Re-situating abortion: bio-politics, global health and rights in neo-liberal times
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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:32 authored by Maya UnnithanMaya Unnithan, Silvia de ZordoNew modes of neoliberal and rights-based reproductive governance are emerging across the world which either paradoxically foreclose access to universal health services or promote legislative reform without providing a continuum of services on the ground. These shifts present new opportunities for the expansion but also the limitation of abortion provision conceptually and ‘on-the-ground’, both in the Global North and South. The collection of papers in this special issue examine current abortion governance discourse and practice in historical, socio-political contexts to analyse the threat posed to women's sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. Focusing on abortion politics in the context of key intersectional themes of morality, law, religion and technology, the papers conceptually ‘re-situate’ the analysis of abortion with reference to a changing global landscape where new modes of consumption, rapid flows of knowledge and information, increasingly routinised recourse to reproductive technologies and related forms of bio-sociality and solidarity amongst recipients and practitioners coalesce.
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Global Public HealthISSN
1744-1692Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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6Volume
13Page range
657-661Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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- Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health Publications
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2018-03-21First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-03-02First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-03-21Usage metrics
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