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Creating Choice : A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 / by D. Cline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cline, David P., 1969-
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Oral History, 2731-5681
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History, Modern.
- Sex.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- America--History.
- America.
- Clinical psychology.
- US History.
- Modern History.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- History of the Americas.
- Clinical Psychology.
- Local Subjects:
- US History.
- Modern History.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- History of the Americas.
- Clinical Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the United States. Illegal abortion affected millions of women and their families, yet their stories remain hidden. In Creating Choice , citizens of one community in Western Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley break that silence.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE The Women: Survivors of Illegal Abortions
- ONE Elizabeth Myer
- TWO Dr. Robin Dizard
- THREE Jean Baxter
- FOUR Carol C. Wall
- FIVE Dr. Meredith W. Michaels
- SIX Dr. Susan Tracy
- PART TWO Providers of Reproductive Health Care: Doctors, Health Educators, and Illegal Abortionists
- SEVEN Dr. Merritt F. Garland, Jr.
- EIGHT Dr. Sam Topal
- NINE Dr. Robert Gage
- TEN Dr. Jane Zapka
- ELEVEN Dr. Lawrence Siddall
- TWELVE Lorraine Florio
- PART THREE The Clergy and their Allies: Clergy and Affiliated Lay Abortion Counselors
- THIRTEEN Reverend Richard Unsworth
- FOURTEEN Reverend Samuel M. Johnson
- FIFTEEN Reverend Franklin A. Dorman
- SIXTEEN Rabbi Yechiael Lander
- SEVENTEEN Elaine Fraser
- EIGHTEEN Ruth Fessenden
- PART FOUR The Feminists: Feminist Lay Abortion Counselors
- NINETEEN Amherst Women's Liberation's Abortion and Birth Control Group
- TWENTY Springfield Women's Health Collective
- PART FIVE The Connectors: Uniting Medical Care, Activism, and Feminism
- TWENTY-ONE Merry Boone
- TWENTY-TWO Ellen Story
- TWENTY-THREE Leslie Tarr Laurie
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9786611369521
- 9781281369529
- 1281369527
- 9781403982896
- 1403982899
- OCLC:
- 567964956
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