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"Over four years, Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing projects. They found that television depicts abortion as a problem for the poor and the working classes, and that viewers invariably referred to class when discussing abortion."--BOOK JACKET.
"Pro-life women from various classes were unified in their rejection of materialist values. This group strongly believed that a reduced family income was worth the sacrifice in order to stay home with children. Pro-life women also shared a general suspicion of the media as a source of information, turning instead to their understanding of science to validate their biblically derived worldview. Pro-choice women's beliefs, however, were divided along class lines.
Working-class women defended choice because they viewed themselves as a group whose interests are continually threatened by legal authorities. In contrast, middle-class women argued for individual rights and thought abortion necessary for those who aren't financially ready. Many middle-class pro-choice women, the authors argue, share the same point of view as displayed on television."--BOOK JACKET.
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Television and women, Abortion, Public opinion, Attitudes, Women, Sociale beïnvloeding, Strafrecht, Avortement, Femmes, Opinion publique, Televisie, Télévision et femmes, Vrouwen, Öffentliche Meinung, Abortus provocatus, Frau, Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Verhalten, Women, attitudes, Mass media and womenPlaces
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Speaking of abortion: television and authority in the lives of women
1999, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226680312 9780226680316
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.
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