Women against abortion : inside the largest moral reform movement of the twentieth century /
"Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism. Empowered by--yet in many cases scared of--the changes wrought by feminism, they founded grassroots groups, developed now-familiar strategies and tactics, and gave vo...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1425184 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The emergence of crisis pregnancy centers
- The invention of postabortion syndrome
- Feminist Catholic women's grassroots antiabortion activism
- Women and the rescue movement
- Women and lethal violence in the antiabortion movement
- Epilogue: the legacies of women's work in the antiabortion movement.