Elena Caruso
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Caruso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Caruso |
| SIGNATURE | CARUSO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8133-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Becoming legal
Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal status changes. Enabling a gender analysis of legal change, becoming legal gives significance to often overloo…
How Did You Get in There and Make the Law Work?’ Feminist Activism, Doctors and Abortion Law
In this article, I examine the aftermath of Italy's 1978 abortion law (Law 194/1978) and the following feminist occupation of a Rome hospital, revealing a little-known chapter in feminist history. The legislation marked a pivotal moment by partly legalising abortion access, overturning draconian laws from the Fascist era. The focus on the 3-month occupation illuminates how social movements actively shaped, and were shaped by, the implementation o…
Abortion in Italy
This comment considers the Italian Law 194 on abortion forty years after its approval in 1978 and it focuses on how its meaning has emerged as a result of its interpretation and application over that forty-year period
The Ambivalence of Law
Abortion in Italy
This comment considers the Italian Law 194 on abortion forty years after its approval in 1978 and it focuses on how its meaning has emerged as a result of its interpretation and application over that forty-year period
The Ambivalence of Law
Abortion in Italy
This comment considers the Italian Law 194 on abortion forty years after its approval in 1978 and it focuses on how its meaning has emerged as a result of its interpretation and application over that forty-year period
The Ambivalence of Law
How Did You Get in There and Make the Law Work?’ Feminist Activism, Doctors and Abortion Law
In this article, I examine the aftermath of Italy's 1978 abortion law (Law 194/1978) and the following feminist occupation of a Rome hospital, revealing a little-known chapter in feminist history. The legislation marked a pivotal moment by partly legalising abortion access, overturning draconian laws from the Fascist era. The focus on the 3-month occupation illuminates how social movements actively shaped, and were shaped by, the implementation o…
Becoming legal
Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal status changes. Enabling a gender analysis of legal change, becoming legal gives significance to often overloo…
Abortion (4 works) · Abortion law (3 works) · Family planning (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Pregnancy (3 works) · Research methodology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demography (2 works)