Victoria University Press warmly invite youto the launch of Fighting to Choose by Alison McCulloch, to be launched by Dame Margaret Sparrow.
Wednesday May 1st, 6pm at the shiny new VicBooks, Kelburn Parade, Victoria University Wellington. Books will be available for purchase on the night or, if you are unable to attend the launch, pre-orders are available from VUP with free postage within NZ. You can also meet Alison at the Women's Studies Association conference 26th-28th of April and on the Prochoice Highway tour or, if you’re an ALRANZ member, she’ll all be at the AGM on April 30th.
Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand, paperback, $50.
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Fighting to Choose chronicles one of the most important yet neglected chapters in New Zealand’s recent political history. More than thirty-five years ago, at the height of the second wave of feminism, New Zealand passed a conservative abortion law that bucked a trend in the West toward liberalisation. How did this happen in a country proud of its progressive social policies – particularly its record on women’s rights? And why is such a cumbersome, expensive, endlessly litigated set of statutes still on the books? In Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand, Alison McCulloch sets out to answer those questions by taking a close look at the people involved and the tactics they employed in waging what was – and continues to be – an intense and impassioned battle.
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