Demographic Anxiety and Abortion
Italian Pro-Life Volunteers' and Gynecologists' Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Mattalucci (0000-0001-7869-1110, Department of Human Sciences for Education R. Massa, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, corresponding author), Silvia De Zordo (0000-0002-8956-6566, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 6-7 |
| Pages | 674-688 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2022.2087181 |
| PMID | 35771062 |
| OpenAlex | W4283741428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
In this article, we analyze the public debate on fertility decline and abortion in Italy, focusing on demographic anxieties, fueled by conservative demographers and politicians, about the different reproductive behavior of native Italians and migrants. We argue that vitapolitics, a moral regime that defends "life" and condemns abortion, is one of the main mechanisms of reproductive governance in Italy. Drawing on two studies 1) on pro-life volunteers' activism and 2) gynecologists' attitudes to abortion and conscientious objection, we illustrate how vitapolitics shapes the demographic anxieties of these two social actors, who contribute to discipline reproduction on the ground
Abortion · Anxiety · Fertility · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Reproduction · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Safe abortion
The Politics of Reproduction
From women’s ‘irresponsibility’ to foetal ‘patienthood’
Population replacement, social mobility and development in Italy in the twentieth century
Conceiving the New World Order
Reproduction at the Margins
Nation and reproduction
Using a Feminist Paradigm (Intersectionality) to Study Conservative Women
An Imperfect Contraceptive Society
"Empty Cradles" and the Quiet Revolution
Anthropology, Demography, and the Search for a Critical Analysis of Fertility
They Just Happened
Reproductive governance in Latin America
Reproducing Italians
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |