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- Title
From Doctors and Lawyers to Wives and Mothers: Enacting "Feminine Style" and Changing Abortion Rights Arguments.
- Authors
Zurakowski, Michele M.
- Abstract
This essay focuses on the ways women use arguments to influence political decisions. Specifically, it examines the arguments and tactics used by the Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy (MCLTP). The stages in the abortion argument are professional, professional narrative, and discrimination-pragmatic stage. The author argues that arguments in the abortion controversy shifted to ones more feminine in nature and form because of the inclusion of women into the movement through grass-roots level mechanisms, an enactment of feminine style. This shift in rhetorical activity was grounded in the tension between considering the rights and responsibilities within the context of the abortion issue.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; UNITED States; ABORTION; WOMEN; POLITICAL participation; PRO-choice movement; LEGISLATION; WOMEN'S rights; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 1994, Vol 17, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.1994.11089778