The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States

Why have legislative initiatives occurred on such controversial issues as contraception and abortion at times when activist movements had demobilized and the public seemed indifferent? Why have abortion and contraception sometimes been framed as matters of medical practice, and at other times as matters of moral significance? Based on archival and sociological research, and speaking to issues in the study of culture, social movements, and legal change, The Moral Veto examines what the history of controversies over morally charged issues tells us about cultural pluralism in the U.S.

Author: Gene Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/16/2005
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.84w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780521609845

About the Author
Burns, Gene: - Gene Burns is an award-winning teacher and associate professor of public affairs at James Madison College, of Michigan State University. A sociologist by training, he is the author of The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1993. He has written articles on social movements, revolutions, and the politics of religion in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Sociology of Religion, and other journals.

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