When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
Exploiting legal as well as medical records, Reagan has retrieved the history of women who struggled for reproductive autonomy and provides our best account of how the practice and policing of abortion evolved in relation to medicine, the state, and the condition of women. [This] is a major...
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Exploiting legal as well as medical records, Reagan has retrieved the history of women who struggled for reproductive autonomy and provides our best account of how the practice and policing of abortion evolved in relation to medicine, the state, and the condition of women. [This] is a major contribution to social history.James W. Reed, Rutgers University"This is a fascinating bookenergetic, even urgent in its narrative. It is based on entirely new material, making ingenious and enlightening use of criminal trials, inquests and newspaper accounts. Both creative and painstaking in her research, Reagan persuasively establishes historical patterns in the availability of assisted abortion, and documents a striking anti-abortion backlash in the 1940-50s. In addition to the book's value for scholars, it will undoubtedly be valuable to feminists, lawyers, doctors,and others intersted in the conditions of abortion today."Nancy Cott, Yale University"A first-rate exposition of the changing cultural and legal climate regarding abortion in America."Thomas Szasz, Washington Post
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520216570 (0520216571)
ASIN: 520216571
Publish date: September 21st 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I'm really interested in Reagan's assertion that the German Measles epidemic in the 1960s played a role in legalizing abortion. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uoia-epl062510.php