The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Fortress Europe and the reproductive rights agenda

Abstract

Loes Keysers looks at Europe's role in shaping the feminist agenda for reproductive health and rights within the large macro-economic context. Keysers reviews the Cairo reproductive health and rights agenda within the sobering global context of population and development questions, taking up the relations within Europe and in the international domain of North-South cooperation. She argues that there are complex and controversial issues that need to come to the fore if Europe is to play an accountable and coherent role in setting a social justice rather than population control agenda.