Shaping Abortion Discourse

Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. Abortion is a critical battleground for debates over social values in Germany and the U.S., but the constitutional premises on which arguments rest differ, as do the strategies that movements and parties adopt and the opportunities for influence that are open to them.

Author: Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/16/2002
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521790451