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Title: When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 by Leslie J. Reagan ISBN: 0-520-21657-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Flawed Premise
Comment: Unfortunately this books begins with a flawed premise... There were times in Germany when the slaughtering of Jews was not a crime, according to the state, and times when it was (before and after WWII). Yet in the truest sense, the killing of innocents is always a crime--current political conditions are irrelevant. In the same way, abortion is always a crime, regardless of the current political conditions.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Powerful Work of History
Comment: This is elegant historical scholarship that is informative and compelling. I was struck by the way the author used the voices of so many people--women, legal authorities, doctors and journalists to explain not only the legal history of abortion but so much about American history and about women's lives. I'm sorry some other reviewers seem compelled to push their politics rather than describe the book--perhaps they didn't bother to read it. The book is well documented and a model for how to write and explain women's lives.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not History
Comment: This book is nothing more than a political diatribe masking itself as history. Reagan's Ph.D. committee should be ashamed they allowed her to pass this off as a dissertation. And historians-especially women's historians-should be ashamed to call Reagan one of their own. I am. This work is a key example why people don't take women's history seriously.
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Title: Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900 by James C. Mohr ISBN: 0195026160 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: August, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 by Rickie Solinger, Patricia Anderson, Marie Bass ISBN: 0520209524 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 by Ruth Feldstein ISBN: 0801484383 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition by Estelle B. Freedman ISBN: 0226261492 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey ISBN: 0465026214 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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