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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838246803321

Autore

Singer Elyse Ona

Titolo

Lawful Sins : Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico / / Elyse Ona Singer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-5036-3148-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

362.1988/800972

Soggetti

Abortion - Government policy - Mexico

Abortion - Social aspects - Mexico

Reproductive rights - Mexico

Women - Mexico - Social conditions

Women's rights - Mexico

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Past Is Never Dead . . . : Reproductive Governance in Modern Mexico -- 2. The Right to Sin: Abortion Rights in the Shadow of the Church -- 3. Being (a) Patient: The Making of Public Abortion -- 4. Abortion as Social Labor: Protection and Responsibility in Public Abortion Care -- 5. At the Limit of Rights: Abortion in the Extralegal Sphere -- Conclusion -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: ILE Patient Interview Sample -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash. In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today



have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to the expanded reach of the Mexican state and the Catholic Church over their bodies and reproductive lives. By analyzing the moral politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program, Lawful Sins offers a critical account of the relationship among reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, and public healthcare. With timely insights on global struggles for reproductive justice, Singer reorients prevailing perspectives that approach abortion rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies.