Abortion, Sovereignty, and Patriarchy in Morocco
Jess Marie Newman
Apr 2027 · Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century Book 20 · Univ of California Press
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Abortion is not just healthcare; it is self-determination. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Moroccan activists and healthcare workers, Abortion, Sovereignty, and Patriarchy in Morocco highlights the contradictions of providing and seeking abortion care in contexts where the procedure is illegal. Jess Marie Newman argues that state control over abortion requires the dehumanization of all pregnant people. This unflinching, reflexively written feminist ethnography moves between transnational and personal scales to clarify abortion’s role at the heart of sovereignty and its indivisibility from bodily autonomy and national body alike. Newman forcefully demonstrates that abortion restores both self and reason to the unwillingly pregnant person. In other words, abortion is sovereignty.
Abortion is not just healthcare; it is self-determination. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Moroccan activists and healthcare workers, Abortion, Sovereignty, and Patriarchy in Morocco highlights the contradictions of providing and seeking abortion care in contexts where the procedure is illegal...
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Jess Marie Newman is an anthropologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
Jess Marie Newman is an anthropologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
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