| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in oral history |
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Palgrave studies in oral history.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Dr. Joyce Berkman and Dr. Susan Tracy -- Introduction / David Cline -- Part I: The Women: Survivors of Illegal Abortions -- Elizabeth Myer -- Robin Dizard -- Jean Baxter -- Carol C. Wall -- Meredith Michaels -- Susan Tracy -- Part II: Providers of Reproductive Health Care -- Dr. Merrit Garland, Jr., M.D -- Dr. Sam Topal, M.D. -- Dr. Robert Gage, M.D. -- Dr. Jane Zapka, Ph. D. -- Lawrence Siddall, Ed. D. -- Lorraine Florio -- Part III: The Clergy and their Allies -- Reverend Richard Unsworth -- Reverend Samuel M. Johnson -- Reverend Franklin A. Dorman -- Rabbi Yechaiel Lander -- Elaine Fraser -- Ruth Fessenden -- Part IV: The Feminists: Feminist Lay Abortion Counselors -- Amherst Women's Liberation's Abortion and Birth Control Group -- Springfield Women's Heath Counseling -- Part V: The Connectors: Uniting Medical Care, Activism and Feminism -- Merry Boone -- Ellen Story -- Leslie Tarr Laurie |
| Summary |
Focusing on one Massachusetts community, David Cline uses the personal stories of those who sought abortions and of birth control and the health care professionals, clergy members, and feminist activists who helped them to reexamine the contentious history of reproductive rights in America in the last thirty years. His work brings together interviews with a variety of individuals--college chaplain moved to activism after one of his students died from a botched backalley abortion and another hung herself because of an unwanted pregnancy; members of women's collectives who ferried women to abortion clinics across state lines in a kind of modern Underground Railroad; a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her bathtub; and the women themselves who risked their lives. This fascinating collection is a much-needed contribution to recent scholarship on the reproductive rights movement as well as being an important new work of community oral history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Birth control -- Massachusetts -- Pioneer Valley -- History -- 20th century
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Abortion -- Massachusetts -- Pioneer Valley -- History -- 20th century
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Feminism -- United States
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Contraception.
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Feminism.
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Abortion, Criminal
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Contraception
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Feminism
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Abortion, Criminal -- history
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Contraception -- history
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Feminism -- history
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History, 20th Century
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feminism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
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Contraception.
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Abortion.
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Birth control.
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Feminism.
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Massachusetts |
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Massachusetts -- Pioneer Valley.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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interviews.
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Interviews.
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History.
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Interviews.
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Interviews.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403982896 |
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1403982899 |
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