Contested Spaces

Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals: Politicizing the Female Body

in English, 254 pages,
Ashgate Publishing Limited / Routledge, June 11, 2013
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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.