Constance A. Bean, Author, Ellen Cole, Author, Esther D. Rothblum, Author Routledge $27.95 (187p) ISBN 978-1-56023-003-8
Bean ( Methods of Childbirth ), a health educator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes the lazy way out in her discussion of a vital subject. She initially establishes an important point: the killing of women by husbands and...
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Sumi Hoshiko, Author, Norma McCorvey, Author, Ellen Cole, Author Routledge $39.95 (197p) ISBN 978-1-56023-025-0
Sixteen women tell their highly individual stories about having abortions in America. The range of experience is wide--from an illegal abortion in a hotel room to a more recent one in a contemporary clinic--though Hoshiko fails to explain how these...
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Ruth Raymond Thone, Author, Ellen Cole, Author, Esther D. Rothblum, Author Routledge $59.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-7890-0178-8
Thone, a self-described ""fat and old,"" white-haired, 65-year-old feminist, rails against a society that values youth and slenderness above all else, sparing no one from her radical language. Her palpable outrage certainly strikes a chord--""We...
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Eve Kushner, Author, Ellen Cole, Author, Esther D. Rothblum, Author Routledge $120 (362p) ISBN 978-1-56023-902-4
This collection of women's tales of abortion will certainly be useful as a textbook, but a lack of in-depth analysis makes it a bit of a drag as a read. Portions of the various interviews are arranged under headings such as ""Moving Through...
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