No Doctors Required: Lay Activist Expertise and Pharmaceutical Abortion in Argentina
| Autor: | Julia McReynolds-Pérez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
Latin Americans 05 social sciences Abortion humanities Gender Studies 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 050903 gender studies SAFER Political science Law embryonic structures medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 0509 other social sciences Misoprostol reproductive and urinary physiology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 42:349-375 |
| ISSN: | 1545-6943 0097-9740 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/688183 |
| Popis: | In Argentina, as in the rest of Latin America, abortion is illegal in most cases. But recently the advent of misoprostol, a pharmaceutical that can be used to induce abortion, has made safer abortion more accessible throughout the region. Local feminist activists are engaged in a direct-action campaign making information about misoprostol available to women who seek abortions. This activism builds on a long tradition of feminist organizing in the region, draws on transnational ties, and recalls other feminist direct-action campaigns related to women’s health. The activists involved are increasing access to safe abortion, especially for poor women, and radically reconfiguring the networks of expertise through which women access information about abortion. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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