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Autore |
Whittaker Andrea (Andrea M.), <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Abortion, sin, and the state in Thailand / / Andrea Whittaker |
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London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-32756-0 |
1-134-32757-9 |
1-280-04672-4 |
0-203-42944-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asian Studies Association of Australia women in Asia series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Abortion - Social aspects - Thailand |
Abortion - Moral and ethical aspects - Thailand |
Abortion - Political aspects - Thailand |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-186) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: bearing politics -- Abortion, sin, and the state -- A history of the abortion debate -- Conceiving the nation: representations of abortion in Thailand -- Corrupt girls, victims of men, desperate women: representations of women who abort -- 'A small sin': everyday acts -- 'The truth of our day by day lives': situational ethics -- Global debates, local dilemmas. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 200,000 to 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods. |
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