Hanafin, Patrick (2009) Refusing disembodiment: abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy. Feminist Theory 10 (2), pp. 227-244. ISSN 1464-7001.
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Abstract
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom. The Act itself contains traces of both Roman Catholic and liberal pluralist worldviews and has, since its introduction, been the site of conflict over competing notions of citizenship and legal identity. This article explores the impact of the Act's paradoxical nature on its operation against the background of the complex debates within the different strands of feminist theory in Italy over the question of reproductive freedom. From the publisher's website at: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/227
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The publisher has imposed a 12 month embargo on the open availability of this item. The full text will be available through Birkbeck ePrints in September 2010. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Feminist Theory 10 (2), August 2009 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © SAGE Publications. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | abortion, Italy, reproductive politics, rights, sexual difference |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Contemporary Literature, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2009 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:48 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/817 |
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