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The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century?and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor fifty years in the mid-nineteenth century, ?Madame Restell,? the nom du guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. ?Restellism? became the term her detractors used to indict her.Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. Vilifying her became one strategy for controlling women and criminalizing abortion and birth control. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work; greater sexual freedoms; a changing view of the roles of motherhood and childhood; and an unease about fewer .
Book Details :
Author : Nicholas L. Syrett
Pages : 352 pages
Publisher : The New Press
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ISBN-10 : 75277339-the-trials-of-madame-restell
ISBN-13 : 9781620977453
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