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" The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century8212 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 prevailed8212 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. "
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Biographisches: " 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. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 7, 2023 In this illuminating narrative, Syrett ( American Child Bride ), a gender studies professor at the University of Kansas, profiles Ann Trow Summers Lohman (1812–1878), a female physician and abortion provider who practiced in New York City under the pseudonym Madame Restell. When Lohman established her career in the late 1830s, abortion and other women’s reproductive healthcare were largely legal and overseen by female midwives, but legal restrictions, moral condemnations, and opposition from all-male medical institutions grew over the half century during which she worked. In spite of increasing backlash, Madame Restell was a highly successful and sought-after practitioner. She advertised her services in major papers and often wrote long letters to the press defending her practice against legal challenges and protest. She was arrested numerous times, and in 1839 served a year in a dismal prison on Blackwell’s Island. In 1870, antivice activist Anthony Comstock tricked Lohman by pretending to be a customer, leading to another arrest. Based on his evidence, she was indicted for advertising and selling contraceptives and abortifacients. Knowing that she was facing a certain prison sentence, Lohman died by suicide. Drawing extensively on newspaper reports and trial records, Syrett reveals an entire underground industry that flourished in 19th-century American cities, and tracks the rise of opposition to women’s reproductive care over time. It’s an eye-opening account. Illus."
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