Abortion and democracy : contentious body politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

1. Abortion Rights and Democracy: An Introduction　

Barbara Sutton and Nayla Luz Vacarezza

Part I: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

2. Abortion and Political Parties in the Southern Cone: Electoral Costs, Platforms, and Feminist Activists

Cora Fernández Anderson

3. Feminist Lawyers, Litigation, and the Fight for Abortion Rights in the Southern Cone

Elizabeth Borland

4. Orange Hands and Green Kerchiefs: Affect and Democratic Politics in Two Transnational Symbols for Abortion Rights

Nayla Luz Vacarezza

5. Neoconservative Incursions into Party Politics: The Cases of Argentina and Chile

Juan Marco Vaggione and José Manuel Morán Faúndes

Part II: Uruguay

6. "Push and Pull": The Rocky Road to the Legalization of Abortion in Uruguay

Alejandra López-Gómez, Martín Couto, and Lucía Berro Pizzarossa

7. Women’s Bodies, an Eternal Battlefield?

Susana Rostagnol and Magdalena Caccia

Part III: Argentina

8. Rights and Social Struggle: The Experience of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion in Argentina

María Alicia Gutiérrez

9. Social Media Debate on #AbortoLegal in Argentina

Claudia Laudano

10. Transforming Abortion Access Through Feminist Community-Based Healthcare and Activism: A Case Study of Socorristas en Red in Argentina

Brianna Keefe-Oates

Part IV: Chile

11. Between the Secular and the Religious: The Role of Academia in the Abortion Debate in Chile

Lidia Casas Becerra

12. Exploring Alternative Meanings of a Feminist and Safe Abortion in Chile

Lieta Vivaldi and Valentina Stutzin

Afterword. Embodying Democracy: Abortion Protest and Politics in the Southern Cone

Sonia E. Alvarez