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Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade / David J. Garrow ; updated with a new epilogue.
LIBRA KF3771 .G37 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garrow, David J., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Abortion.
- Birth control--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Birth control.
- Sex and law--United States--History.
- Sex and law.
- Privacy, Right of--United States--History.
- Privacy, Right of.
- History.
- Birth control--Law and legislation.
- Abortion--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 1047 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- The definitive account of the legal and political struggles that created the right to privacy and won constitutional protection for a woman's right to choose, "Liberty and Sexuality" details both the unheralded contributions of the young lawyers who filed America's first abortion rights cases and the inside-the-Supreme Court deliberations that produced "Roe v. Wade".
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 978-1007) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0520213025
- OCLC:
- 38157311
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