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The Trials of Madame Restell

Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
  • Nicholas L. Syrett
2023
The New Press

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Madame Restell
Book Review

‘Hag of Misery’

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.
by Susan Faludi via New York Review of Books
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on October 12, 2023
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