Politica y reproduccion/ Politics and Reproduction: Aborto, la frontera del derecho a decidir/ Abortion, The Lines of the Right to Choose (Temas De Debate)

by Marta Lamas

Argues that the abortion question serves to crystalize opinions on the issue of womens' right to control their own bodies, and describes the development of feminism in Mexico.

203 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2001

About the author

Marta Lamas Encabo is a Mexican anthropologist and political science professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She is one of Mexico's leading feminists and has written many books aimed at reducing discrimination by opening public discourse on feminism, gender, prostitution and abortion. Since 1990, Lamas has edited one of Latin America's most important feminist journals, Debate Feminista (Feminist Debate).In 2005, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.