Our Lives : What Abortion Attitudes Reveal about Who We Are as Americans

Bruce, Tricia Colleen

University of California Press（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520387331

Full Description

Amid a volatile abortion landscape in the United States, Our Lives goes beyond polling and politics to uncover the raw messiness of everyday Americans' abortion attitudes. Drawing on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with a randomly selected, closely representative set of US residents in the lead-up to and aftermath of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, sociologist Tricia Colleen Bruce uncovers the ambivalence, loyalties, doubts, contradictions, personal ties, and quiet stories undergirding moral and legal views on abortion.

Listening to everyday Americans complicates straightforward pro-choice and pro-life talking points and reveals something more about contemporary judgments as to what makes a good life, a good person, a good government, and a good society. How Americans think about abortion, Bruce shows, turns out to say a lot about how Americans think about themselves, each other, and the society they imagine, create, and live in—together.

Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Our Memories         

2. Our Allegiances      

3. Our Experiences     

4. Our Judgment         

5. Our Ambivalence   

An Exegesis: Our "Good"      

Conclusion: Our Thinking About Abortion   

Appendix A: The Study          

Appendix B: The Interview Protocol 

Notes

References

Index