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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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Literatures Initiative
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 7 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- 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