Francophobia, Anti-Americanism: Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues

Husting, Ginna; King, Leslie

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“…93 French Health Minister ClaudeÉvin famously called it 'the moral property of women' after the state-controlled manufacturing company, fearing reprisals from militant anti-abortion groups, briefly discontinued production. 94 Today, more than half of all abortions in France and Britain are not surgical, but pharmaceutical. 95 Meanwhile, the birth of millions of 'miracle' babies worldwide has normalised IVF, 96 but debates rage on, on both sides of the Channel and around the world, over the ethics and regulation of surrogacy, 'three-parent babies' and genetic screening.…”

Section: Fights For Contraception and Abortionmentioning

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Reproductive Politics in Twentieth-Century France and Britain

Olszynko-Gryn

Rusterholz

2019

Med. Hist.

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This special issue adopts a comparative approach to the politics of reproduction in twentieth-century France and Britain. The articles investigate the flow of information, practices and tools across national boundaries and between groups of experts, activists and laypeople. Empirically grounded in medical, news media and feminist sources, as well as ethnographic fieldwork, they reveal the practical similarities that existed between countries with officially different political regimes as well as local differences within the two countries. Taken as a whole, the special issue shows that the border between France and Britain was more porous than is typically apparent from nationally-focused studies: ideas, people and devices travelled in both directions; communication strategies were always able to evade the rule of law; contraceptive practices were surprisingly similar in both countries; and religion loomed large in debates on both sides of the channel.

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Section: Fights For Contraception and Abortionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductive Politics in Twentieth-Century France and Britain

Olszynko-Gryn

Rusterholz

2019

Med. Hist.

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American Triumphalism and the “Offensive” Defensiveness of the French

Demont-Heinrich

2008

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Drawing from a variety of disciplines, this article examines some of the tensions reflected and reproduced by the global hegemony of English. It does so by way of critical interpretation of accounts of the global spread of English published in five American-owned prestige press publications. Part of a 275-text data pool, the texts analyzed in this article wrap the story of the global hegemony of English around Anglo-Franco competition and rivalry. They embrace what the author calls the French Foil narrative, or a story about the global rise of English that pits English against French, the United States against France, and Americans against “the” French. The story told is one in which English is seen as triumphing over French because of its superior status as a popular language. This antielitist plot relies heavily on the consummate antagonist of American populism, the French intellectual.

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Women as Political Bodies in the International Speeches of Margaret Sanger

Stearns¹,

Sharp²,

Beutel³

2015

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The speeches of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger have received scant attention. This article examines the contraceptive rhetoric in Sanger’s speeches to international and US audiences. Drawing from scholarship on epistemic communities and the politicization of women’s bodies, it uses rhetorical analysis to identify the thematic elements of these speeches. It finds that Sanger’s rhetoric in her internationally delivered speeches mostly located the act of contraception at national and international levels, rather than at individual or family levels. Additionally, Sanger’s contraceptive rhetoric in the United States created bodies in search of creative fulfillment, while her non-US rhetoric worked largely to construct bodies in pursuit of civic responsibility. The epistemic community backing Sanger privileged and legitimized her rhetoric, helping to construct women—especially women outside the United States—as nationalistic entities and global citizens through whom the successful adoption of contraception equated with a better nation and a more peaceful world. The article underscores how rhetoric, backed by an epistemic community, operates as a powerful tool for constructing gendered political and civic bodies.

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Francophobia, Anti-Americanism: Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Reproductive Politics in Twentieth-Century France and Britain

Reproductive Politics in Twentieth-Century France and Britain

American Triumphalism and the “Offensive” Defensiveness of the French

Women as Political Bodies in the International Speeches of Margaret Sanger

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