RT Book
T1 The trials of Madame Restell: nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime
A1 Syrett, Nicholas L.
LA English
PP New York
PB The New Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851714073
AB 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 rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, Madame Restell, the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. Restellism became the term her detractors used to indict her.Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period she prevailed-until she didn t.A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN RG734.R47
SN 9781620977453
K1 Restell : Madame : 1811-1878 : Trials, litigation, etc
K1 Mauriceau, A. M
K1 Comstock, Anthony : 1844-1915
K1 Restell - Madame - 1811-1878
K1 1800-1899
K1 Trials (Abortion) : New York (State)
K1 Trials (Manslaughter) : New York (State)
K1 Abortion services : New York (State) : New York : History : 19th century
K1 Abortion : New York (State) : New York : History : 19th century
K1 Women in medicine : New York (State) : New York : Biography
K1 Trials (Abortion) : New York (State) : New York : History : 19th century
K1 Women physicians : New York (State) : New York : Biography
K1 Amerikanische Geschichte
K1 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical
K1 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
K1 Biografien: allgemein
K1 Biography: science, technology & medicine
K1 Ethische Themen: Schwangerschaftsabbruch und Geburtenkontrolle
K1 Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen
K1 HIS058000
K1 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
K1 POL073000
K1 Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
K1 Abortion
K1 Abortion services
K1 Trials
K1 Trials (Abortion)
K1 Women in medicine
K1 Women physicians
K1 Biographies
K1 History
K1 New York (State) - New York
K1 Biography
K1 USA : Hebamme : Empfängnisverhütung : Schwangerschaftsabbruch : Kriminalisierung