Conceiving Life: Reproductive Politics and the Law in Contemporary Italy
ISBN: 9781315573267
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Law; Social Sciences; Medical & Healthcare Law; Socio-Legal Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Gender Studies;

This volume examines the evolution of reproductive law in Italy from the `far west' of the 1980s and 90s through to one of the most potentially restrictive systems in Europe. The book employs an array of sociological, philosophical and legal material in order to discover why such a repressive piece of legislation has been produced at the end of a period of substantial change in the dynamic of gender relations in Italy. The book also discusses Italian policy within the wider European policy framework.

Patrick Hanafin is Director of Research at the Department of Law, Birkbeck College, UK.

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