Abortion in Early Modern Italy

by John Christopoulos

A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.

In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. His poignant portraits of women who terminated or were forced to terminate pregnancies offer a corrective to longstanding views: he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence about abortion. Italians from all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674248090
• ISBN13: 9780674248090
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"