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Creating Choice : A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 / by D. Cline.

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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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