New Book Offers Fresh Approach to Abortion Debate
New Book Offers Fresh Approach to Abortion Debate
Tired of the same old abortion debate? A new book brings together multicultural, multifaith voices that share a surprisingly fresh yet historically rooted approach to the issue. This approach, called prolife feminism, seeks justice & mercy for both women and children, born and unborn.
Kansas City, MO — The Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Association (FNSA), a nonprofit publisher of scholarly activist work, announces the release of its English-language print book ProLife Feminism Yesterday and Today. This anthology gives voice to an often unheard, unutilized, but deeply peacemaking alternative to the usual-and so often fruitlessly divisive — terms of the rapidly globalizing abortion debate.
Instead of lethally pitting women against the unborn, the diverse activists in this book offer the far more inclusive, surprisingly old-but-new vision of prolife feminism. These women’s rights advocates range from the 18th century Anglo-Irish writer Mary Wollstonecraft to the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund pioneer Graciela Olivarez to the Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai. Yet all challenge abortion as violence against fetal lives arising from violence against female lives. They do not stop there. They reach for more life-affirming, constructive solutions to the grave problems that all too frequently beset women and children before, during, and after birth.
Their feminism and child advocacy grow organically from the same nonviolence ethic that explains their devotion to other life-and-death causes of their times, an ethic that can and does appeal to multicultural people of all faiths and none. Among their ranks, past and present, are dedicated advocates of racial and economic justice, peace/antiwar, anti-colonialism/anti-imperialism, interreligious tolerance, death penalty abolition, disability rights, GLBT rights, and ecological care (including animal advocacy and vegetarianism).
About the Book’s Coeditors:
Rachel MacNair is a peace psychologist, Linda Naranjo-Huebl a professor of literature by women and people of color, and Mary Krane Derr a poet, writer, and inner-city community gardening activist.
To Arrange Media Interviews:
Please phone or email Rachel MacNair.
Purchasing Copies:
Nonprofit organizations, classes, book clubs, resellers and libraries can get a 40% discount for the paperback or 20% for the hardcover by phoning FNSA’s publishng partner, XLibris, at 1.888.795.4274 ext. 276, faxing 1.610.915.0294, or emailing their Orders Department.
To Request a Complimentary Review Copy:
The following can request a free e-copy of the book in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) or word processing format such as .doc (Microsoft Word): organizations from Earth’s financially poorer regions; writers for print or Internet media; book distributors; booksellers; and educators. Please email Mary Krane Derr with “Book Request” and the name of your preferred file format in the subject line. The e-copy will be sent as an email attachment.
To Discuss Distribution Arrangements, Translations, or Reprints:
Please also send a message to Mary Krane Derr. We are very interested in reaching a wide global audience.