Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940

by Karen Weingarten

Book Overview

The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy.

Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813565294
• ISBN13: 9780813565293
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary