The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America's Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime

by Nicholas L. Syrett

The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century--and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights

For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620977451
• ISBN13: 9781620977453
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.8"