Abortion in the American Imagination : : Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940 / / Karen Weingarten.
The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenche...
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Weingarten, Karen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Abortion in the American Imagination : Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940 / Karen Weingarten. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (204 p.) : 7 photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The American Literatures Initiative Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Biopolitics of Abortion as the Century Turns -- 2. The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstock and Margaret Sanger: Choice, Rights, and Freedom in Modern America -- 2. The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstock and Margaret Sanger: Choice, Rights, and Freedom in Modern America -- 4. Economies of Abortion: Money, Markets, and the Scene of Exchange -- 5. Making a Living: Labor, Life, and Abortion Rhetoric -- Epilogue: 1944 and Beyond -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race, and gender roles. Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, and Langston Hughes into conversation with the era's films, newspaper articles, and activist rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped our very sense of what it means to be an American. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Abortion in literature. American literature History and criticism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh social science, women's rights, sociology, american literature, american studies, gender studies, abortion, pro life, pro choice, roe v wade, personal responsibility, individual autonomy, autonomy, social reform, eugenics, economics, race, gender, women's rights movement, feminist, feminism, women's reproductive rights, reproductive rights, pregnant, pregnancy, abortion rights, anti abortion, pro abortion, rights of the fetus, politics, contemporary politics. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110666151 print 9780813565309 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813565392 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813565392 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813565392.jpg |
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