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The trials of Madame Restell : nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime

text The trials of Madame Restell : nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime

Summary

"The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights"--

Contents
Ann Trow Summers Lohman -- A Letter to Married Women -- In the Family Way -- Madame Restell's Competition -- Illegitimacy and Infanticide -- "A Disgrace to Her Sex" -- A.M. Mauriceau, Professor of Diseases of Women -- Seduced and Abandoned -- In t... Read more
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viii, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher
The New Press 2023

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 RESTELL, MADAME SYR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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