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Three years ago I proposed at SUNY Cortland (a liberal arts college emphasizing undergraduate education with a student population of about 5500) the creation of onecredit introductory level module topics courses in our Political Science Department. The purposes of these modules were several: 1) to provide faculty with a testing ground for new courses located at the upper level. One-credit topics modules would allow faculty to experiment with a new course or new subject on a smaller scale, avoiding the necessity of an intellectual and time investment in a full semester offering; 2)to provide some alternate introductory-level course offerings for non-political-science majors in addition to our two core offerings, Introduction to American Government, and Introduction to Comparative World Systems.

Argues that the antiabortion movement has a significance well beyond the campaign to abolish legal abortion itself; it acts as a powerful catalyst for a number of right-wing causes, including explicit antifeminist mobilisation. Explores some of the current political meanings of abortion in order to illuminate the ways in which abortion has come to serve as a 'condensation symbol' for contemporary opposition to feminism. (Abstract amended)