Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology.Joanna Mishtal is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida.Lorena Anton is a Marie Curie Fellow in social anthropology at the University of Bucharest (2013-2017), where she develops a project on abortion governance in post-communist Romania.

• IntroductionSilvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena AntonPART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Women's Right to AbortionChristina ZampasChapter 2. Freeing Abortion in SwedenAnnulla Linders and Danielle BessettChapter 3. Women's Liberation and the 'Right to choose': Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and SwitzerlandKristina Schulz and Leena SchmitterPART II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life ActivismClaudia MattalucciChapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox KeySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Still a Woman's Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium's Abortion StrugglesKaren Celis and Gily CoenePART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICESChapter 7. 'Good doctors do not object': Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists' Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in ItalySilvia de ZordoChapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrid's Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant WomenBeatriz Martin AragonChapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in NorwayMette LokelandPART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICESChapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceausescu's RomaniaLorena AntonChapter 11. Quietly 'Beating the System': The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion BanJoanna MishtalChapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern IrelandRobin Whitaker and Goretti HorganAfterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze RightLynn M. MorganBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"This edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like `liberalization' is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time." H-Soz-Kult

Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology.Joanna Mishtal is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida.Lorena Anton is a Marie Curie Fellow in social anthropology at the University of Bucharest (2013-2017), where she develops a project on abortion governance in post-communist Romania.

• IntroductionSilvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena AntonPART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Women's Right to AbortionChristina ZampasChapter 2. Freeing Abortion in SwedenAnnulla Linders and Danielle BessettChapter 3. Women's Liberation and the 'Right to choose': Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and SwitzerlandKristina Schulz and Leena SchmitterPART II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life ActivismClaudia MattalucciChapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox KeySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Still a Woman's Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium's Abortion StrugglesKaren Celis and Gily CoenePART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICESChapter 7. 'Good doctors do not object': Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists' Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in ItalySilvia de ZordoChapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrid's Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant WomenBeatriz Martin AragonChapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in NorwayMette LokelandPART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICESChapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceausescu's RomaniaLorena AntonChapter 11. Quietly 'Beating the System': The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion BanJoanna MishtalChapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern IrelandRobin Whitaker and Goretti HorganAfterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze RightLynn M. MorganBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"This edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like `liberalization' is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time." H-Soz-Kult

Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology.Joanna Mishtal is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida.Lorena Anton is a Marie Curie Fellow in social anthropology at the University of Bucharest (2013-2017), where she develops a project on abortion governance in post-communist Romania.

• IntroductionSilvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena AntonPART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Women's Right to AbortionChristina ZampasChapter 2. Freeing Abortion in SwedenAnnulla Linders and Danielle BessettChapter 3. Women's Liberation and the 'Right to choose': Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and SwitzerlandKristina Schulz and Leena SchmitterPART II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICSChapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life ActivismClaudia MattalucciChapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox KeySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Still a Woman's Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium's Abortion StrugglesKaren Celis and Gily CoenePART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICESChapter 7. 'Good doctors do not object': Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists' Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in ItalySilvia de ZordoChapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrid's Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant WomenBeatriz Martin AragonChapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in NorwayMette LokelandPART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICESChapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceausescu's RomaniaLorena AntonChapter 11. Quietly 'Beating the System': The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion BanJoanna MishtalChapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern IrelandRobin Whitaker and Goretti HorganAfterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze RightLynn M. MorganBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"This edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like `liberalization' is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time." H-Soz-Kult