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Abortion in the American Imagination : Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940 /

"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-ent...

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Auteur principal: Weingarten, Karen, 1980- (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Biopolitics of Abortion as the Century Turns
  • 2. The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstockand Margaret Sanger
  • 3. The Eugenics of Bad Girls
  • 4. Economies of Abortion
  • 5. Making a Living
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.