Trust Women

preview-18
  • Trust Women Book Detail

  • Author : Rebecca Todd Peters
  • Release Date : 2018-04-10
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 250
  • ISBN 13 : 080706999X
  • File Size : 99,99 MB

Trust Women by Rebecca Todd Peters PDF Summary

Book Description: As women’s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist weighs in on the abortion debate—offering a stirring argument that “the best arbiter of a woman’s reproductive destiny is herself” (Cecile Richards, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America) Here’s a fact that we often ignore: unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women’s reproductive lives. Roughly one-third of US women will have an abortion by age forty-five, and fifty to sixty percent of the women who have abortions were using birth control during the month they got pregnant. Yet women who have abortions are routinely shamed and judged, and safe and affordable access to abortion is under relentless assault, with the most devastating impact on poor women and women of color. Rebecca Todd Peters, a Presbyterian minister and social ethicist, argues that this shaming and judging reflects deep, often unspoken patriarchal and racist assumptions about women and women’s sexual activity. These assumptions are at the heart of what she calls the justification framework, which governs our public debate about abortion, and disrupts our ability to have authentic public discussions about the health and well-being of women and their families. Abortion, then, isn’t the social problem we should be focusing on. The problem is our inability to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents who must weigh the concrete moral question of what to do when they are pregnant or when there are problems during a pregnancy. Ambitious in method and scope, Trust Women skillfully interweaves political analysis, sociology, ancient and modern philosophy, Christian tradition, and medical history, and grounds its analysis in the material reality of women’s lives and their decisions about sexuality, abortion, and child-bearing. It ends with a powerful re-imagining of the moral contours of pre-natal life and suggests we recognize pregnancy as a time when a woman must assent, again and again, to an ethical relationship with the prenate.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Trust Women books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Trust Women

Trust Women

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 4713 Views
DOWNLOAD

As women’s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist weighs in on the abortion debate—offering a stirring argument that “

Pain and Prejudice

Pain and Prejudice

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 6185 Views
DOWNLOAD

“[A] powerful account of the sexism cooked into medical care ... will motivate readers to advocate for themselves.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review A gro

The New Superpower for Women

The New Superpower for Women

File Size : 41,41 MB
Total View : 6866 Views
DOWNLOAD

It takes only seven seconds for a criminal to pick you as a target. This empowering guide for women to protect themselves and their loved ones, from a self-defe

Never Trust a Lady

Never Trust a Lady

File Size : 27,27 MB
Total View : 5789 Views
DOWNLOAD

Bestselling author Suzanne Robinson takes readers back to the days of the Civil War, as passions run high and even a proper British lady cannot resist the pull

Centered Leadership

Centered Leadership

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 7517 Views
DOWNLOAD

What enables some talented people to rise to the top and live their full ambitions at work and in life, while others stop short? In 2007, Joanna Barsh led a tea