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Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room by Merle Hoffman Publisher Comments Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose. Over the years, Hoffman has used her... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger Publisher Comments An impassioned argument for reproductive rights In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century by Alexander Sanger Publisher Comments Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund and Alan Kesselheim Publisher Comments One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients. In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus by Anibal Faundes Publisher Comments Abortion 101, an accessible account of abortion practices and ethical issues around the globe, for students, activists, and policymakers Deeply touched by the tragedies of botched abortions that they witnessed as medical students and young physicians in... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada by Drew Halfmann Publisher Comments Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries shared heritage. Doctors and Demonstrators looks beyond... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back by Gloria Feldt Publisher Comments Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Abortion & Life by Jennifer Baumgardner Publisher Comments “In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.”—The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan by Lara M Knudsen Publisher Comments A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006 Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents. Her goal... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill by Lara V Marks Publisher Comments Heralded as the catalyst of the sexual revolution and the solution to global overpopulation, the contraceptive pill was one of the twentieth centurys most important inventions. It has not only transformed the lives of millions of women but has also... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker Publisher Comments In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund Publisher Comments In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young age. It was not until... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Women Without a Shadow Maternal Desire and Assisted Reproductive Technologies by Silvia Tubert Synopsis This detailed and rigorous analysis locates reproductive technologies in the historical context of the progressive technification of the management of human life, and their relation to the social and medical discourses on femininity, maternity and... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price: $9.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us by Carole Joffe Publisher Comments @lt;b@gt;Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access@lt;/b@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;b@gt; @lt;/b@gt;@lt;br@gt;More than thirty-five years after women won the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Broken Justice: A True Story of Race, Sex and Revenge in a Boston Courtroom by Kenneth C Edelin Publisher Comments A memoir covering the years 1971-1976. It's about what Dr. Edelin saw, heard, felt, and experienced in treating sick and poor women during the days of his residency at Boston City Hospital, and it's about the perversion of justice in the pursuit of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Policies in the American States by Deborah R Mcfarlane Synopsis A groundbreaking new book on American policy and human fertility control which reviews and analyzes policies and practices over the last thirty years in each of the fifty states. Arguing that morality politics has helped make fertility policies... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War by William Saletan Publisher Comments In his gripping, behind-the-scenes account, journalist William Saletan reveals exactly how, thirty years after Roe v. Wade, "pro-choice" conservatives have won the abortion war. Having successfully turned abortion into a privacy issue, conservatives now... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928-1939 by Margaret Sanger Publisher Comments The birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and dynamic figures of the twentieth century. Volume 2 chronicles Sanger’s efforts during the Depression years to legalize contraception. These... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $45.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents by Mary Shanley Publisher Comments If you want to consider all sides of the thorniest issues affecting creation of a parent-child relationship . . . you could read over a hundred books, essays, and law review articles. Or you could read this book. --Nancy D. Polikoff, The Women's Review... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberty and sexuality :the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade by David J Garrow Book News Annotation Pulitzer-prize winner Garrow (Bearing the Cross) traces the struggle over sexual freedom from cases in the 1920s and 1930s, over the legality of using birth control, to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. He also considers... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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