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More copies of this ISBNeBook editionsWhen Abortion Was a Crime : Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (97 Edition)by Leslie J. Reagan
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Publisher Comments:"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 book--energetic, 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 Review:"A first-rate exposition of the changing cultural and legal climate regarding abortion in America." Thomas Szasz, Washington Post Review:"Rich, thought-provoking, and revelatory....Reagan...is the first to span the whole period of criminalization and to cover the subject in such depth." Katha Pollitt, The Atlantic Monthly Review:"Essential." Frank Rich, New York Times Review:"This well-written book is a stellar, complex, and accessible volume that will stand as the definitive history for years to come." Rickie Solinger, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Review:"Reagan brings a new perspective to the hsitory of illegal abortion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." Jane Hodgson, Journal of the American Medical Association Review:"A solidly grounded, sophisticated history of illegal abortion in the US. Of enduring interest to anyone concerned with the history of women's rights, sexual mores, and the relationships of law and policy to ordinary lives." Kirkus Reviews Review:"For those who take legal abortion for granted, Reagan's work is an eye-opener." Publishers Weekly Review:"This book brings to life both the medical and legal history of abortion in the United States. This fascinating history, with its extensive bibliography, is an essential purchase for academic medical, legal, and women studies collections. Highly recommended for public libraries as well." Library Journal Review:"A brilliant account of the era before the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, when abortion was illegal....A model of social history, supported by a spectacular wealth of documentary evidence....Most important, Reagan shows how abortion and the medical and legal responses to it have changed over time....This well-written book is a stellar, complex and accessible volume that will stand as the definitive history for years to come." San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle Review:"Reagan raises sharp questions about the relationship between medicine and the law." Chicago Tribune About the AuthorLeslie J. Reagan is Associate Professor of History, with affiliations in gender and women's studies, law, media and cinema studies, and medicine, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (UC Press) and coeditor of Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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