Prudence Flowers

Gebundenes Buch

The Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion

Beschreibung

This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan. It analyzes anti-abortion engagement with the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and offers what is frequently a narrative of disappointment and factionalism. The chapters explore pro-life responses to Supreme Court vacancies, attempts to pass a constitutional amendment, and broader legislative and bureaucratic strategies, including successful campaigns against international and domestic family planning programs. The book suggests that the 1980s transformed the anti-abortion cause, limiting the types of ideas and approaches possible at a national level. Although the movement later claimed Reagan as a "pro-life hero," while he was President right-to-lifers continuously struggled with the gap between his words and deeds. They also had a fraught relationship with the broader Republican Party. This book charts the political education of right-to-lifers, offering insights into social movement activism and conservatism in the late twentieth century.

Autor

Prudence Flowers is a lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. She teaches and researches United States history. She has published on first-wave feminism and the temperance movement in the late nineteenth century and on anti-abortion activism in the 1970s and 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Verlag: Palgrave Pivot / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-01706-4
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9783030017064
• ISBN-10: 3030017060
• Artikelnr.: 53712802