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Abortion in Mexico: A History(Engendering Latin America)

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Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.

Nora E. Jaffary draws on courts’ and medical practitioners’ handling of birth termination to advance two central arguments. First, Jaffary contends, the social, legal, and judicial condemnation of abortion should be understood more as an aberration than the norm in Mexico, as legal conditions and long periods of Mexican history indicate that the law, courts, the medical profession, and everyday Mexicans tolerated the practice. Second, the historical framework of abortion differed greatly from its present representation. The language of fetal personhood and the notion of the inherent value of human life were not central elements of the conceptualization of abortion until the late twentieth century. Until then, the regulation of abortion derived exclusively out of concerns for pregnant people themselves, specifically about their embodiment of sexual honor.

In Abortion in Mexico Jaffary presents the first longue durÉe examination of this history from a variety of locations in Mexico, providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of the practice of abortion and informing readers of just how much the debate has evolved.
 

Table of Contents:
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. 1519–1870
2. 1871–1930
3. 1931–2000
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author :
Nora E. Jaffary is a professor of history at Concordia University. She is the author of Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 and False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Nebraska, 2008).
 

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"In this impressively succinct text, Jaffary shows both the power and the limits of the law in shaping women's reproductive experiences and raises questions that will add nuance to classroom debates on this important and timely subject."-B. A. Lucero, ChoiceAbortion in Mexico is incredibly well researched and provides an alternative to the widely held view that Mexicans always opposed abortion and a person’s control of their reproductive capacities. It is an important corrective to these views, but it is also the first book to comprehensively study abortion and infanticide in Mexico. With deftness of analysis, Jaffary takes us through the early permissive era in the colonial period and shows how slowly Mexicans joined in a condemnatory discourse around this topic. This is a tour de force.”-Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, author of The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial MexicoAbortion in Mexico is a well-written and engaging book and is a significant contribution to legal history, women’s and gender history, and the history of sexuality.”-Nichole Sanders, author of Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781496240613
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Sub Title: A History
  • ISBN-10: 1496240618
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2024
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Engendering Latin America
  • Width: 152 mm


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