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Encounters with the state: a study of pathways to pregnancy prevention and termination in Phoenix, Arizona
Pregnancy prevention and termination in Phoenix, Arizona
Description
This research project analyzes women’s dynamic pathways to pregnancy prevention and termination in Arizona. Two levels of analysis guide the study: The first is a cultural analysis of the socio-legal conditions that shape the channels to birth control and abortion. During this historical moment, I analyze the fight over increasing (and calls for more) legal constraints against contraception and abortion, coupled with decreasing individual access to reproductive health care information and services. This dissertation includes an examination of the struggle over reproductive health on the ground and in the legal arena, and real pushbacks against these constraints as well. The second is an analysis of how women seek out contraception or abortion within the US socio-legal landscape. The study qualitatively examines narratives from 33 women in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area, a region emblematic of the political contest over the legal regulation of women’s reproductive health currently unfolding nationally. Ultimately, the state is implicated in the various resources and barriers—people, places, processes and policies—that inform women’s pregnancy prevention. These experiences can illuminate the ways that reproductive health care is shaped by intersecting and sometimes competing ideologies, and how women encounter them in their daily lives. The study theorizes the embodiment of women’s local encounters with the state within a cultural context of contested law and policy reform.
Date Created
2016
Contributors
- Martinez, Melissa Janel (Author)
- Adelman, Madelaine (Thesis advisor)
- Provine, Doris Marie (Committee member)
- Hibner Koblitz, Ann (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
vi, 237 pages
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.40810
Statement of Responsibility
by Melissa Janel Martinez
Description Source
Viewed on April 20, 2020
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2016
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-220)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Justice Studies
System Created
- 2016-12-01 07:10:06
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:20:21
- 2 years 8 months ago
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