The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century Americas Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Syrett Nicholas L.
The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century Americas Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Syrett Nicholas L. The biography of one of the most famous…
Specifikacia The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century Americas Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Syrett Nicholas L.
The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century Americas Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Syrett Nicholas L.
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 rightsFor fifty 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 a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. "Restellism" became the term her detractors used to indict her.Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. It was the abortions that made her famous.
But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and