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Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 (Palgrave Studies in Oral...
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by David P. Cline
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Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan February 2, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1403968144
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1403968142
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Product Review
"David Cline has assembled an amazingly rich repository of testimonies chronicling a community's efforts to facilitate reproductive autonomy at a time when the state prohibited such activities. This work is a major contribution to the project of preserving and disseminating the histories of activism, feminism, and reproductive politics in the United States."--Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (2005) and other books "A powerful document of the History of abortion before and after legalization, this book offers a compelling collection of oral History interviews that weave together the story of abortion in an entire community. Creating Choice gives voice to a group of people whose stories are crucial to our understanding of women's History but who have so far not been heard. This collection is not only crucial to students of the History of abortion. It provides an equally rare look into the History of the sexual revolution and the women's health movement on college campuses. Creating Choice is wonderfully accessible, an important collection for anybody trying to understand the History of women and sexuality."--Johanna Schoen, University of Iowa
Book Description
Focusing on one Massachusetts community, David Cline uses the personal stories of those who sought abortions and of birth control and the health care professionals, clergy members, and feminist activists who helped them to reexamine the contentious History of reproductive rights in America in the last thirty years. His work brings together interviews with a variety of individuals--college chaplain moved to activism after one of his students died from a botched backalley abortion and another hung herself because of an unwanted pregnancy; members of women's collectives who ferried women to abortion clinics across state lines in a kind of modern Underground Railroad; a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her bathtub; and the women themselves who risked their lives. This fascinating collection is a much-needed contribution to recent scholarship on the reproductive rights movement as well as being an important new work of community oral history.
Reader Reviews
"David Cline has assembled an amazingly rich repository of testimonies. This work is a major contribution to the project of preserving and disseminating the histories of activism, feminism, and reproductive politics in the United States." --Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (New York University Press, 2005) and other books "In this rich collection of interviews, David Cline illuminates the courage, pain and determination of those who dared to break laws that banned abortions and chose instead to create communities that embraced choice." --William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, Duke University "David Cline has written an extremely moving and fascinating account of one community's response to the reproductive health care needs of women in the era before Roe v Wade. Cline's book is most timely, as the hard won victories of the past-for access to birth control as well as to abortion care-are once again in jeopardy." --Carole Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v Wade (Beacon Press, 1995) "A powerful document of the history of abortion Creating Choice is wonderfully accessible, an important collection for anybody trying to understand the history of women and sexuality." --Johanna Schoen, University of Iowa, author of Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) "An urgent and moving account of the multiple sources of change that brought about the spectacular-and now imperiled-expansion of women's reproductive rights. Through an exemplary use of oral history interviews, David Cline has uncovered the "amazing web" of ministers, doctors, and feminists who provided support for women seeking access to birth control and abortion in the years before Roe v Wade. Until now, such local stories have been repressed and forgotten, distorting history and severing the struggle for women's rights from the larger project of human progress and freedom. --Jacquelyn Hall, Spruill Professor of History and Director of the Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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