Download or read book The Trials of Madame Restell written by Nicholas L. Syrett and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For 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 prevailed—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.
Download or read book Trial of Madame Restell Alias Ann Lohman for Abortion and Causing the Death of Mrs Purdy written by Ann Trow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trial of Madame Restell, Alias Ann Lohman, for Abortion and Causing the Death of Mrs. Purdy: Being a Full Account of All the Proceedings on the Trial, Together With the Suppressed Evidence and Editorial Remarks Young woman, married or single, if you have sinned, it is of no consequence here is a mother confessor that will shrive and absolve you; here is a place where you may lie down and reco ver from your confinement. We must speak plainly. It is no shame to a woman to be pregnant - rather an honor. The church has a form called Churching of Women. When a woman has borne a child, she rises from her couch, returns thanks to her Maker for her deliverance, and publicly avows, and with proper pride, that she has done her duty by her husband, her country, and her God. She is proud, not ashamed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Wickedest Woman in New York written by Clifford Browder and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Madame Restell a New York City abortionist who practices her profession for forty years, despite public opinion.
Download or read book Madame Restell written by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and published by . This book was released on 2025-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 8 a.m. on the first of April 1878, the chamber maid found Restell's nude body in the bathtub, her throat cut. The coroner ruled it a suicide. But is that what really happened?Madame Restell was New York City's most notorious abortionist of the nineteenth century. Some claimed she was an evil presence, but in reality, she was "a necessary evil." At a time when there were no reliable means of birth control, procuring an abortion was common. Madame Restell capitalized on her career as a "female physician" and "professor of midwifery," helping hundreds of women and men for nearly forty years while amassing great wealth.Part of her downfall was in flaunting the wealth she attained from catering to New York City's elite by constructing a mansion on Fifth Avenue, driving around in elaborate carriages, and wearing diamond jewelry and stylish silk dresses. At her death, she was worth millions and her notoriety made her a stain on the city. So who was the real woman behind the persona of Madame Restell? Much of what's been written, past and present, has spun mistruths about her. There is another side to the story of her death and much more to the story of her life. Based on decades of meticulous research and never-before-published primary source materials, Madame Restell: The True Story of New York City's Most Notorious Abortionist, Her Early Life, Family, and Murder offers an investigative study of American's most infamous abortionist. In this riveting hybrid monograph of biography, family history, and true crime, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack chose to sacrifice the details of Madame Restell's career and trials to concentrate on unravelling the true story of English-born Ann (Trow) (Summers) Lohman (1811-1878), the woman who would become this notorious nineteenth-century figure. Taking segments of Ann's life, Carmack corrects misinformation, adds new material about Restell that has never been published, and presents a compelling argument that Ann's "suicide" was, in reality, a far more tragic end. In addition, Carmack features for the first time in print details about Madame Restell's English ancestry and her American descendants.
Download or read book The Abortionist of Howard Street written by R.E. Fulton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street. On January 17, 1872, McCarty boarded a streetcar in Utica, New York, shot her ex-lover in the face, and disembarked, unaware that her bullet had passed through her target's head and into the heart of the innocent man sitting beside him. The unlucky passenger died within minutes. Josephine McCarty was arrested for attempted murder and quickly became the most notorious woman in central New York. The Abortionist of Howard Street was, however, far more than a murderer. In Maryland she was "Johnny McCarty," a blockade runner and spy for Confederate forces. New Yorkers whispered of her as a mistress to corrupt Albany politicians. So who was she? The prosecution in her murder trial claimed she was a calculating and heartless operative both in the bedroom and in her public life. Or was she the victim of ill fortune and the systemic weight of misogyny and male violence? The answer, of course, was not as simple as either narrative. In this absorbing and rich history, R.E. Fulton considers the nuances of Josephine McCarty's life from marriage to divorce, from financial abuse to quarrels with intimate partners and more, trying to decipher the truth behind the stories and myths surrounding McCarty and what ultimately led her to that Utica streetcar with a pistol in her dress pocket. In The Abortionist of Howard Street, Fulton revisites a rich history of women's experience in mid-nineteenth century America, revealing McCarty as a multifaceted, fascinating personification of issues as broad as reproductive health, education, domestic abuse, mental illness, and criminal justice.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress Index of Subjects in Two Volumes written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress Aargau to Lichfield written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria written by Public Library of Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wonderful Trial of Caroline Lohman Alias Restell written by Madame Restell and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Trials and Legal Literature Belonging to J H V Arnold written by John Harvey Vincent Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madame Restell written by Jennifer Wright and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction (2023)** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR in BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR and HISTORY** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH (March 2023)** **A Bookshop.Org EDITOR'S PICK (March 2023)** “This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: self-made millionaire, a celebrity in her era, a woman beloved by her patients and despised by the men who wanted to control them.” An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling “boarding house” provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of women—rich and poor alike. As her practice expanded, her notoriety swelled, and Restell established her-self as a prime target for tabloids, threats, and lawsuits galore. But far from fading into the background, she defiantly flaunted her wealth, parading across the city in designer clothes, expensive jewelry, and bejeweled carriages, rubbing her success in the faces of the many politicians, publishers, fellow physicians, and religious figures determined to bring her down. Unfortunately for Madame Restell, her rise to the top of her field coincided with “the greatest scam you’ve never heard about”—the campaign to curtail women’s power by restricting their access to both healthcare and careers of their own. Powerful, secular men—threatened by women’s burgeoning independence—were eager to declare abortion sinful, a position endorsed by newly-minted male MDs who longed to edge out their feminine competition and turn medicine into a standardized, male-only practice. By unraveling the misogynistic and misleading lies that put women’s lives in jeopardy, Wright simultaneously restores Restell to her rightful place in history and obliterates the faulty reasoning underlying the very foundation of what has since been dubbed the “pro-life” movement. Thought-provoking, character-driven, boldly written, and feminist as hell, Madame Restell is required reading for anyone and everyone who believes that when it comes to women’s rights, women’s bodies, and women’s history, women should have the last word.
Download or read book Fierce Desires A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America written by Rebecca L. Davis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America—the first major account in three decades. Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a “tradwife” is gaining adherents on the right while polyamory wins converts on the left. It may seem as though debates over sex are more intense than ever, but as acclaimed historian Rebecca L. Davis demonstrates in Fierce Desires, we should not be too surprised, because Americans have been arguing over which kinds of sex are “acceptable”—and which are not—since before the founding itself. From the public floggings of fornicators in early New England to passionate same-sex love affairs in the 1800s and the crackdown on abortion providers in the 1870s, and from the movements for sexual liberation to the recent restrictions on access to gender affirming care, Davis presents a sweeping, engrossing, illuminating four-hundred-year account of this nation’s sexual past. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including legal records, erotica, and eighteenth-century romance novels, she recasts important episodes—Anthony Comstock’s crusade against smut among them—and, at the same time, unearths stories of little-remembered pioneers and iconoclasts, such as an indentured servant in colonial Virginia named Thomas/Thomasine Hall, Gay Liberation Front cofounder Kiyoshi Kuromiya, and postwar female pleasure activist Betty Dodson. At the heart of the book is Davis’s argument that the concept of sexual identity is relatively novel, first appearing in the nineteenth century. Over the centuries, Americans have shifted from understanding sexual behaviors as reflections of personal preferences or values, such as those rooted in faith or culture, to defining sexuality as an essential part of what makes a person who they are. And at every step, legislators, police, activists, and bureaucrats attempted to regulate new sexual behaviors, transforming government in the process. The most comprehensive account of America’s sexual past since John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman’s 1988 classic, Intimate Matters, Davis’s magisterial work seeks to help us understand the turmoil of the present. It demonstrates how fiercely we have always valued our desires, and how far we are willing to go to defend them.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books Relating to the Literature of the Law Collected by the Late John V L Pruyn written by John VanSchaick Lansing Pruyn and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Abortion in the American Imagination written by Karen Weingarten and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race, and gender roles. Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, and Langston Hughes into conversation with the era’s films, newspaper articles, and activist rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped our very sense of what it means to be an American.
Download or read book Roe V Wade written by Catherine Clinton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As an installment of UGA Press's 'History in the Headlines' series, this book offers a rich discussion between highly respected scholars on the historical backdrop and context for contemporary "issues" (from the headlines). In addition to the historical context, these "conversations" demonstrate how historians speak to one another about contentious topics and can contribute in meaningful ways to the public's understanding. This volume focuses on the historical perspective to discussions of abortion and women's rights in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe V. Wade"--
Download or read book When Abortion Was a Crime written by Leslie J. Reagan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim "back alley" operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. Women could find cooperative and reliable practitioners; but prosecution, public humiliation, loss of privacy, and inferior medical care were a constant threat. Reagan's analysis of previously untapped sources, including inquest records and trial transcripts, shows the fragility of patient rights and raises provocative questions about the relationship between medicine and law. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.
