Abortion Wars
Subtitle: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 16, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780520202566
Subjects: Abortion; Cultural studies; Social history; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Social Science; Abortion (Sociological Aspects); Sociology; Women's Studies - Abortion; USA; Abortion & Birth Control; Social Science / Gender Studies; Sociology - General; 20th century; Government policy; History; United States; Women's rights
First sentence: In the late 1980s, when the legal right to abortion seemed desperately threatened, I decided to find out as much as I could about the experiences of single mothers and unwillingly pregnant girls and women in the decades immediately preceding Roe v. Wade.