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- Title
- Paperback abortion : Freakonomics, market populism and that abortion-and crime-theory
- Related
- Australian feminist studies, Vol. 26, Issue 68, (2011), p.167-192
- DOI
- 10.1080/08164649.2011.574598
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date
- 2011
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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169900 Other Studies in Human Society
- Author/Creator
- Gleeson, Kate
- Description
- In 2005 Freakonomics popularised the abortion-and-crime theory based on the microeconomic model of fertility control that was buoyed by the phenomenal ubiquity of market populism at the time. In its massive popularity, the book filled the popular bandwidth with a simple caricature of abortion as an individual economic preference, the demand for which might simply be switched on or off by the prevailing market conditions of the day. This, potentially, has great implications for women's reproductive history, and for the contemporary conceptualisation of abortion as a medical need. In this article I interrogate the abortion-and-crime theory in order to expose its tendentious character as driven by market populism and outdated economic models that have long been a focus for feminist criticism. I highlight the lack of interrogation, both academic and popular, that was afforded the basic premise of the abortion-and-crime theory, in an ideological climate that at the time was overwhelmingly in thrall to market populism as promoted by neo-liberalism.
- Description
- 26 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 169900 Other Studies in Human Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History, Politics and International Relations
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/133062
- Identifier
- ISSN:1465-3303
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010006564
- Language
- eng
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