Coercion : surviving and resisting abortion bans / Kylie Cheung.

  • Cheung, Kylie, 1998-
Date:
2025
  • Books

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Also known as

Surviving and resisting abortion bans

Description

"Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the horrors inflicted by abortion bans began immediately and haven't stopped. These laws have become a tool for abusers, as pregnant people face legal harassment, reproductive coercion, and life-threatening medical trauma. Through biting analysis, Kylie Cheung argues that these aren't unintended consequences, but deliberate acts of state-perpetrated violence inflicted on women and pregnant people, particularly those with the least resources and agency under capitalism and white supremacy. Capitalism has always consciously decided whose lives are expendable. This book is for everyone coming to terms with this fact in the era of the rollback of our bodily autonomy."--From publisher.

Publication/Creation

London ; Las Vegas, NV : Pluto Press, 2025.

Physical description

vi, 192 pages ; 20 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192).

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The New Post-Dobbs Order -- 2. Domestic Violence, Medical Violence, and Anti-Abortion Violence -- 3. How Abusers Weaponize Pregnancy in the Legal System -- 4. Reproductive Coercion -- 5. The Criminalization of Survival and Pregnancy -- 6. Trapped: Pregnancy in the Carceral System -- 7. The Medicalization of Abuse -- 8. The Mythology of Rape Exceptions -- 9. How Liberalism Abandoned Reproductive Justice -- Conclusion: Beyond Roe.

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    History of Medicine
    TPU.T.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780745350615
  • 0745350615