Nicholas L. Syrett

The Trials of Madame Restell

Nineteenth-Century America's Most Infamous "Female Physician" and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 rights"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781620977453
• ISBN-10: 1620977451
• Artikelnr.: 64367997

Autorenporträt

Nicholas L. Syrett is associate dean and professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas. He is a co-editor of the  Journal of the History of Sexuality and author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities, American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States, An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, and The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime (The New Press). His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.