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Rasmussen, Amy C.

Aborted discourse? Identity, marginalization, and the politics of reproductive and sexual health in New York City.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aborted discourse? Identity, marginalization, and the politics of reproductive and sexual health in New York City.
Author:	Rasmussen, Amy C.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Director: Rogers M. Smith.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1147.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3168974
ISBN:	9780542049606

Aborted discourse? Identity, marginalization, and the politics of reproductive and sexual health in New York City.
Rasmussen, Amy C.

Aborted discourse? Identity, marginalization, and the politics of reproductive and sexual health in New York City. - 238 p.

Director: Rogers M. Smith.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

Clear and quantifiable group-based disparities persist along a host of reproductive and sexual health outcomes, and in many women's lived realities, abortion overlaps with issues like infant mortality and sexually transmitted disease prevention and is inextricably linked to general health concerns. Yet, such patterns and connections are rarely seen in contemporary public discussions of these issues. In order to better understand the processes through which these issues are made marginal on the public agenda, I analyze sites of public discourse in the contemporary New York City context: mainstream media and ethnic press coverage of reproductive and sexual health, public health education campaigns in the subways, and school board debates about condom availability in the public schools. The discourses within these sites convey strikingly different images of reproductive and sexual health and lead to very different senses of what the public agenda should be. The social and political formations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are both articulated in and shaped by these discourses.

ISBN: 9780542049606Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Aborted discourse? Identity, marginalization, and the politics of reproductive and sexual health in New York City.
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