Download or read book European Women's Movements and Body Politics written by J. Outshoorn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s. It deals with two important facets of this struggle, prostitution and the right to abortion, as they relate to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.