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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Lucila Szwarc; Tessa Wood Abstract This essay argues that abortion, as a practice and a political cause, challenges traditional and hegemonic health frameworks and contributes to the development of a feminist approach to health. The essay focuses on experiences and activism for legal abortion...
View articletitled, Lessons Learned from Argentina's Struggles for Legal <span class="search-highlight">Abortion</span>: Toward a Feminist Approach to Health
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 14–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Ewa Majewska Abstract In the current revival of fundamentalist right-wing politics globally, Poland occupies an important place given the struggles for abortion and reproductive justice that have been ongoing there since 2016. Together with Mexican, Argentinian, South Korean, and Italian women...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Abortion</span> in the State of Exception: Weak Resistance and Unheroic Reproductive Solidarity in Poland
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Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 7. “Aborta tu orgullo universitario” (“Abort UNAM pride”). Photo by Marisa Belausteguigoitia. Taken with a cell phone camera on April 14, 2020, at the Department of Philosophy and Literature, UNAM, Mexico City.
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 66–93.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Penelope Deutscher Abstract The Dobbs decision revoking the constitutional legality of abortion in the United States was widely characterized as a use of raw power. That gives rise to the questions: What kind of power is in question? How does the post- Dobbs moment encapsulate a number of hinges...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 263–267.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Françoise Vergès Abstract This article draws from Françoise Vergès's book, Le ventre des femmes: Capitalisme, racialisation, féminisme , * which traces the history of the colonization of the wombs of Black women by the French state in the 1960s and 1970s through forced abortions and the forced...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 3–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to recriminalize abortion in Poland (2021) and the United States (2022) are part of this landscape. The ongoing destruction of Palestinian life is another. Meanwhile, renewed and heterogeneous feminist mobilizations have emerged in response, refusing several interrelated forms of expropriation, abuse, and control...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 226–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Poland strikes abortion Black Monday reproductive justice On October 3, 2016, Polish women went on strike...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 26–45.
Published: 01 April 2024
... de ley.” n.d. https://www.abortolegal.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Fundamentos-y-Proyecto-Ley-IVE.pdf 2. Sutton y Borland, “Abortion and Human Rights.” Luego de la última dictadura cívico-militar (1976–1983), los movimientos y discursos de derechos humanos fueron tomando una...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 254–261.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Less , I was also witnessing two world phenomena unfold. I watched media footage of thousands of women in Argentina, wearing green pañuelos (handkerchiefs) and waving green banners, cheering as the Argentinian senate voted to legalize elective abortion. After years of organizing in the Argentine...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 158–177.
Published: 01 April 2018
... only appeared in the press because it was repressed at the end. At the beginning of that same month, women in Poland convoked a national strike rejecting the changes that were being imposed in local legislation to further restrict access to legal abortion. Last October 19, the call for a women's...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the globe. In Europe, it would be difficult to ignore the Polish “Black Protests” taking place since 2016, with their powerful demonstrations against restrictive abortion laws, and the popular rallies that accompanied Ireland's vote for the legalization of abortion in 2018. Before that, the sustained women...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 249–253.
Published: 01 April 2022
... equality, of full justice for the victims of gender and sexual violence, and the right to abortion. In contrast with the contemporary situation in Peru, López highlights various Peruvian authors who have inspired feminist ideas. López refers to the work of Flora Tristán, a pioneer in the creation...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 218–226.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for denouncing the murders of women in Mexico. On May 10, 2015, the tweet “#NotOneLess. We Want to be Alive.” went viral. Five years later, the movement achieved one of its most significant victories, the legalization of abortion in Argentina, by far the largest of the handful of countries in the region...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., legal, and safe abortion in Argentina, a movement that preceded it. The name also came to encompass the women's strikes of March 8 in 2017 and 2018 in the cities of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, and throughout Latin America. The latter were assembly-based movements that were also notable...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 241–248.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Rudan illustrates, Argentinian feminists, inspired by their Polish sisters who were mobilizing against the abortion ban, proposed a transnational day of strike on March 8, 2017. 17 Gradually feminists in more than fifty countries responded to the call and engaged in the organization of a strike...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 241–262.
Published: 01 April 2018
... power on the immediate plane of the mass uprising. “We won't wait,” the Irish women of Strike 4 Repeal claimed, calling attention not just to the urgency of abrogating a patriarchal and murderous anti-abortion law, but also to the fact that the time of the strike, the time of the rupture, is now...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 April 2018
... while they model various kinds of bracing response to these conditions. The activist texts in the pages that follow respond to a “regime of emergency” in Turkey; to a proposed abortion ban and a far-right government in Poland; and to femicides, austerity measures, and worsening inequalities in Argentina...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2024
... through whose lands the Canada-US border was drawn; congressional legislation enacting these same rights within the Immigration and Nationality Act; congressional legislation establishing express passage rights for the Texas Band of Kickapoo; an aborted congressional attempt to clarify passage rights...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 618–631.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that addressed safety from sexual violence, the right to abortion and pregnancy, access to health care, the ability to breastfeed, the dignity of those not recognized as “workers,” wages for domestic work, the threat of war, or access to certain spaces or key infrastructure such as roads or water sources, have...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and the green tide—associated with reproductive rights and the pursuit of legal abortion, which was finally passed by the end of 2020—provides another instance of cross-fertilization among mourning, disobedience, and desire. In fact, I would suggest that the victimizing accounts, which remained resiliently...
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