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Abortion in the American Imagination
Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940
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Artikel-Nr:
9780813565293
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.07.2014
Seiten:
204
Autor:
Karen Weingarten
Gewicht:
293 g
Format:
228x151x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
KAREN WEINGARTEN is an assistant professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
Returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race and gender roles.
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Biopolitics of Abortion as the Century Turns 2. The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstock and Margaret Sanger: Choice, Rights, and Freedom in Modern America 3. The Eugenics of Bad Girls: Abortion, Popular Fiction, and Population Control 4. Economies of Abortion: Money, Markets, and the Scene of Exchange 5. Making a Living: Labor, Life, and Abortion Rhetoric Epilogue: 1944 and Beyond Notes Works Cited Index