| Description |
xvi, 413 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : abortion politics and history ; Pregnancy and power before Roe v. Wade, 1950-1970 / Rickie Solinger -- Beyond safe and legal : the lessons of Jane / Laura Kaplan -- Women versus Connecticut : conducting a statewide hearing on abortion / Amy Kesselman -- The rule of law, the rise of violence, and the role of morality : reframing America's abortion debate / Marcy J. Wilder -- Legal strategies for abortion rights in the twenty-first century / Kathryn Kolbert and Andrea Miller -- Electoral politics and abortion : narrowing the message / William Saletan -- Punishing drug addicts who have babies : women of color, equality, and the right of privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts -- African-American women and abortion / Loretta J. Ross -- Abortion in the United States- legal but inaccessible / Marlene Gerber Fried -- Rescuing the nation : Operation Rescue and the rise of anti-abortion militance / Faye Ginsburg -- Toward coalition : the Reproductive Health Technologies Project / Marie Bass -- "We called it kindness" : establishing a feminist abortion practice / Elizabeth Karlin -- The twentieth-century gender battle : difficulties in perception / Jane E. Hodgson -- Life on the front lines / Warren M. Hern -- The crisis in abortion provision and pro-choice medical activism in the 1990s / Carole Joffe, Patricia Anderson, and Jody Steinauer -- Regendering the U.S. abortion debate / Alison M. Jaggar -- Psychologies of abortion : implications of a changing context / Sharon Gold-Steinberg and Abigail J. Stewart -- Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton. |
| Subject |
Abortion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Abortion -- Government policy -- United States.
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Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Pro-life movement -- United States.
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Abortion, Induced -- history.
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History, 20th Century.
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Public Policy.
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Women's Rights.
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| Added Author |
Solinger, Rickie, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0520202562 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520202566 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520209524 paperback : alk. paper |
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9780520209527 paperback : alk. paper |
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0520201562 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520201569 cloth alkaline paper |
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