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Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals

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Politicizing the Female Body

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Politicizing the Female Body
ByLori A. Brown
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 16 May 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574004
Pages 254
eBook ISBN 9781315574004
Subjects Built Environment, Geography, Social Sciences
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Brown, L.A. (2013). Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals: Politicizing the Female Body (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574004

ABSTRACT

In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare access, and questions what architecture's responsibilities are in respect to this spatial conflict. Employing writing, drawing and mapping methodologies, this interdisciplinary project explores restrictions and legislatures which directly influence abortion policy in the US, Mexico and Canada. It questions how these legal rulings produce spatial complexities and why architecture isn't more culturally and spatially engaged with these spaces. In Mexico, where abortion is fully legal only in Mexico City during the first trimester, women must travel vast distances and undergo extreme conditions in order to access the procedure. Conservative state governments continue to make abortion a severely punishable crime. In Canada, there are nowhere near the cultural and religious stigmas to abortion as in the US and Mexico. Completely legal and without restrictions, Canada offers an important contrast to the ongoing abortion issues within the US and Mexico. Researching the spatial implications of such a politicized space, this book expands beyond a study of abortion clinic and includes other spaces such as women's shelters and hospitals that require multiple levels of secured spaces in order to discuss the spatial ramifications of access and security within spaces that are highly personal, private, and sometimes secret or even hidden. In questioning what architecture's responsibility is in these spatial conflicts, the book looks at how what architecture 'does' can be used to reconsider the spaces and security around such contested places, and ultimately suggests what design's potential impact might be. In doing so, it shows how architecture's role might be redefined within social and spatial practices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|22 pages

Social and Spatial Practices

chapter 3|28 pages

Legal Frameworks Understood Spatially

chapter 4|24 pages

Case Studies and Spatial Awareness

chapter 5|98 pages

Landscapes of Access: United States, Canada and Mexico

chapter 6|18 pages

Conclusion

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