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Abortion politics, mass media, and social movements in America / Deana A. Rohlinger

Author
Rohlinger, Deana A.
Additional Titles
Abortion politics, mass media, & social movements in America
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents
Constraints on strategic choice -- The mass media field -- Abortion, social movements, and mass media -- Media, politics, and the National Right to Life Committee -- Reputation, political change, and the National Organization for Women -- Branding and the success of Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- Concerned Women for America and sympathetic media -- Conclusion -- Afterword: abortion politics in the twenty-first century.
Summary
Weaving together analyses of archival material, news coverage, and interviews conducted with journalists from mainstream and partisan outlets as well as with activists across the political spectrum, Deana A. Rohlinger re-imagines how activists use a variety of mediums, sometimes simultaneously, to agitate for - and against - legal abortion. Rohlinger's in-depth portraits of four groups - the National Right to Life Committee, Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and Concerned Women for America - illuminates when groups use media and why they might choose to avoid media attention altogether. Rohlinger expertly reveals why some activist groups are more desperate than others to attract media attention and sheds light on what this means for policy making and legal abortion in the twenty-first century.
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9781107706583 (ebook)
9781107069237 (hardback)
9781107699373 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
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