FROM WOMENS SUFFRAGE TO REPRODUCTION RIGHTS - CROSS-NATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

Citation
Fo. Ramirez et Eh. Mceneaney, FROM WOMENS SUFFRAGE TO REPRODUCTION RIGHTS - CROSS-NATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS, International journal of comparative sociology, 38(1-2), 1997, pp. 6-24
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
ISSN journal
00207152
Volume
38
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
6 - 24
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7152(1997)38:1-2<6:FWSTRR>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
While women's suffrage has become completely institutionalized around the world, liberalized abortion is one indicator of the status of wome n that remains contested. Moreover, abortion rights differ fundamental ly from women's suffrage in that they are not derivative of rights ori ginally extended to men. In this article, we summarize and compare the results of prior studies that assess the effects of independence era, international linkages, modernization, state activism and status of w omen on the rate of the adoption of women's suffrage and reproduction rights. We are that world cultural models of progress and justice fost er expanded models of political citizenship; these then provide more c ompelling rationales for further women's rights.