Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
Ebook325 pages7 hours
Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
About this ebook
Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians. We also hear quite frequently from spokeswomen for anti-abortion groups. Rarely, however, do we hear the voices of ordinary women—women whose lives have been in some way touched by abortion. Their thoughts typically owe more to human circumstance than to ideology, and without them, we run the risk of thinking and talking about the issue of abortion only in the abstract.
Without Apology seeks to address this issue by gathering the voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortion providers and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whose experience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim of moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the issue of abortion and reproductive justice for so long, Without Apology is an engrossing and arresting account that will promote both reflection and discussion.
With contributions by Aalya Ahmad, Tracey L. Anderson, Jane Cawthorne, Peggy Cooke, Shannon Dea, Carolyn Egan, Linda Gardner, Laura Gillespie, Sterling Haynes, E.K. Hornbeck, Clarissa Hurley, “Dr. James”, H. Bindy K. Kang, Kristen, Natalie Lochwin, Mackenzie, Colleen MacQuarrie, Ruth Miller, Judith Mintz, Erin Mullan, Jen Rinaldi, Sadie Roberts, Martha Solomon, Shannon Stettner, Karen Stote, Nick Van der Graaf, Bernadette Wagner, Laura Wershler, Shannon West, Ellen Wiebe, and Jess Woolford.
Related to Without Apology
Related ebooks
Abortion after Roe Shout Your Abortion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChoice Words: Writers on Abortion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women's Freedom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Where's the Mother? Stories from a Transgender Dad Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDefiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unspeakable: A Feminist Ethic of Speech Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Transgender Body Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaising the Resistance: A Mother's Guide to Practical Activism ( Feminist Theory, Motherhood, Feminism, Social Activism) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5RU486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Family of Origin, Family of Choice: Stories of Queer Christians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social Science For You
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Episode 35 - Dr. Marlene Winell: Religious Trauma Syndrome and Leaving the Fold 0% found this document usefulThat Orson Welles Feeling: with guest Aubrey Gordon, author of What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat. 0% found this document usefulEp 448 | Gay, Feminist, and Against Trans Activism (Part 2) | Guest: Dr. Kathleen Stock 0% found this document useful#369: How To End The War With Your Body | Sonya Renee Taylor 0% found this document usefulA Personal Antiracism Tool For People Who Think They're Allies 0% found this document usefulFandom: A Discussion with andré carrington 0% found this document usefulAre We Overstating Abuse? 0% found this document usefulFatphobia (& Foodphobia) is Anti-Blackness with Da'Shaun Harrison 0% found this document usefulRaising White Kids: Jennifer Harvey: “Interrupting individual acts of racism.” 0% found this document useful40. Healing the Mother Wound with Krystal Barnes 0% found this document usefulEjaculate Responsibly w/ Gabrielle Blair 0% found this document usefulAtomic Habits 0% found this document useful
Related articles
On The “Misogyny Paradox” And The Crisis Of Heterosexual Coupledom Literary HubArticle
On The “Misogyny Paradox” And The Crisis Of Heterosexual Coupledom
Sep 24, 2020
5 min readSo, Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism? Literary HubArticle
So, Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?
Nov 12, 2018
6 min readTracing the Internal Queer Revolution The AtlanticArticle
Tracing the Internal Queer Revolution
Jun 26, 2019
10 min readSperm Donor, Life Partner The AtlanticArticle
Sperm Donor, Life Partner
Dec 8, 2014
Just because women can create and raise a baby alone doesn't mean they want to. An increasing number of women and lesbian couples are seeking an involved father for a donor.
11 min readBook By Mom Of Six Puts Onus On Men To Stop Unwanted Pregnancies NPRArticle
Book By Mom Of Six Puts Onus On Men To Stop Unwanted Pregnancies
Oct 20, 2022
4 min readCommentary: Who Are You Calling A 'Second-wave Feminist'? Los Angeles TimesArticle
Commentary: Who Are You Calling A 'Second-wave Feminist'?
Jan 30, 2018
4 min readWhy Didn’t My Doctor LISTEN TO ME? Woman & HomeArticle
Why Didn’t My Doctor LISTEN TO ME?
Jul 29, 2021
3 min readWe Need To Talk About… Miscarriage Marie Claire AustraliaArticle
We Need To Talk About… Miscarriage
Nov 28, 2019
3 min readSix Books That Show No One Can Hurt You Like a Sibling The AtlanticArticle
Six Books That Show No One Can Hurt You Like a Sibling
Oct 23, 2022
6 min readSamantha Bee Has Words for Aziz Ansari and 'the Inevitable' #MeToo Backlash Los Angeles TimesArticle
Samantha Bee Has Words for Aziz Ansari and 'the Inevitable' #MeToo Backlash
Jan 18, 2018
1 min readWhy Rachel Dolezal Still Tries To Bend Racial Rules Tribune Content Agency OpinionsArticle
Why Rachel Dolezal Still Tries To Bend Racial Rules
May 9, 2018
Remember Rachel Dolezal? The 40-year-old Spokane, Wash., civil rights activist became a national punchline three years ago when her status as a woman of color turned out to be, shall we say, based on artificial colors. Dolezal became an issue in the
3 min readA Sleeper-agent-pageant-queen Exacts Revenge — And Finds Herself — In 'Monarch' NPRArticle
A Sleeper-agent-pageant-queen Exacts Revenge — And Finds Herself — In 'Monarch'
Mar 28, 2022
4 min readBarcelona Elected A Feminist Government. Here’s What Happened Next. The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Barcelona Elected A Feminist Government. Here’s What Happened Next.
May 3, 2019
Barcelona has been taking a feminist approach to governance by bringing a female perspective to urban planning.
5 min readThe Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate The AtlanticArticle
The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate
Nov 12, 2019
12 min readSoccer Isn't for Girly-Girls? How Parents Pick the Sports Their Daughters Play The AtlanticArticle
Soccer Isn't for Girly-Girls? How Parents Pick the Sports Their Daughters Play
Aug 6, 2013
11 min readHow Evangelical Messages Of Sexual Purity Haunt Adulthood For A Generation Of Women Chicago TribuneArticle
How Evangelical Messages Of Sexual Purity Haunt Adulthood For A Generation Of Women
Nov 12, 2018
3 min read'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women NPRArticle
'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women
Jun 24, 2017
3 min read'Against White Feminism' Is An Urgent Call To Action For Solidarity And Justice NPRArticle
'Against White Feminism' Is An Urgent Call To Action For Solidarity And Justice
Aug 17, 2021
4 min readA Year in Reading: Angela Chen The MillionsArticle
A Year in Reading: Angela Chen
Dec 18, 2020
I have read more this year than any other, but that doesn’t feel like a triumph. It felt compulsive and escapist in a bad way, regardless of whether the books were good. The post A Year in Reading: Angela Chen appeared first on The Millions.
3 min readImmune Cells Are Behind Endometriosis Pain FuturityArticle
Immune Cells Are Behind Endometriosis Pain
Jul 12, 2019
2 min readTalking Dirty, Talking Feminism India TodayArticle
Talking Dirty, Talking Feminism
May 31, 2019
Dear feminist men screaming #NotAllMen, and women of the sisterhood' calling Sonakshi Sinha moti, feminism is more than a hashtag or a clever quote on a T-shirt. Two books published earlier this yearone a personal account of growing up as a woman in
1 min readKate Manne: The Shock Collar That Is Misogyny Guernica MagazineArticle
Kate Manne: The Shock Collar That Is Misogyny
Feb 7, 2018
12 min readRebecca Solnit: ‘Younger Feminists Have Shifted My Understanding’ The GuardianArticle
Rebecca Solnit: ‘Younger Feminists Have Shifted My Understanding’
Feb 29, 2020
8 min readWhy I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’ The AtlanticArticle
Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’
Oct 26, 2021
8 min read1970s TIMEArticle
1970s
Mar 6, 2020
8 min readThe Women Behind The 'Alt-Right' NPRArticle
The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'
Aug 20, 2017
5 min readWhy Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo Literary HubArticle
Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo
Jul 12, 2019
11 min readHow Many Ways Can Men Say “Not All Men”? Literary HubArticle
How Many Ways Can Men Say “Not All Men”?
Oct 25, 2018
12 min read'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC NPRArticle
'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
Apr 17, 2018
3 min readTo Learn About the Far Right, Start With the ‘Manosphere’ The AtlanticArticle
To Learn About the Far Right, Start With the ‘Manosphere’
Aug 7, 2019
7 min read
Reviews for Without Apology
Rating: 3.6666666666666665 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
3 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A necessary read for class consciousness— capitalism is the driving force behind abortion propaganda.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Propaganda, biased, and unbalanced. This is similar to the bum fodder the nazis produced
1 person found this helpful
Book preview
Without Apology - Athabasca University Press
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1