Publics and counterpublics |
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| Authors: | Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar |
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| Institution: | Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Cultural Studies , Northwestern University |
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| Abstract: | This essay traces seven stages in the American controversy over abortion between 1960 and 1980. The argument moved from a professional debate to a public dispute marked first by narratives, then successively by the ideographs “life,” “discrimination,” and “choice,” and then to a normalization and stalemate in which the public consensus reflects values and interests from both sides of the conflict. |
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