Criminalization of Women
abortion, inequity, and resistance in chile
$238.48
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2025
Summary
Silenced Voices: Women, Abortion, and the Law
Eyewitness personal accounts of women’s lives under harsh anti-abortion laws
Until 2017, Chile’s abortion laws remained among the most draconian and restrictive in the world. The dozens of interviews that Michele Eggers-Barison conducted between 2011 and 2014 reveal how the criminalization of abortion and the construction of women as criminals went hand in hand–and both shaped and sustained structural, cultural, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252046728 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0252046722 |
| Author: | Michele Eggers-Barison |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Eggers-Barison embeds her analysis of women experiencing abortion when it is illegal and clandestine in a robust human rights framework and connects the human rights of women to access abortion within the broader struggles for rights and equality in Chile.”–Jael Silliman, coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice“There may not be a better moment for this book since the 1960s. With the expanding state bans on abortions and discussions of also restricting access to contraception, Embodying Inequality shows an unfortunate yet very possible future.”–David
About The Author
Michele Eggers-Barison
Michele Eggers-Barison is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at California State University, Chico.
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