Creating Choice

A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973
2006. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6814-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Oral History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cline, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors Forward Preface by Dr. Joyce Berkman and Dr. Susan Tracy Introduction: The Women: Survivors of Illegal Abortions Elizabeth Myer Robin Dizard Jean Baxter Carol C. Wall Meredith Michaels Susan Tracy Providers of Reproductive Health Care: Doctors, Health Educators, and Illegal Abortionists Dr. Merrit Garland, Jr. Dr. Sam Topal Dr. Robert Gage. Jane Zapka Lawrence Siddall Lorraine Florio The Clergy and Their Allies: Clergy and Affiliated Lay Abortion Counselors Reverend Richard Unsworth Reverend Samuel M. Johnson Reverend Franklin A. Dorman Rabbi Yechiael Lander Elaine Fraser Ruth Fessenden The Feminists: Feminist Lay Abortion Counselors Amherst Women's Liberation's Abortion and Birth Control Group Springfield Women's Health Counseling The Connectors: Uniting Medical Care, Activism and Feminism Merry Boone Ellen Story Leslie Tarr Laurie Acknowledgements Endnotes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID P. CLINE is currently a Research Assistant at the Southern Oral History Programme at the Centre for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. He was an editor of the Alternative Travel Directory (Transitions Abroad Publishing) and his articles and book reviews have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Utne Reader, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and in other national periodicals.