Women against abortion : inside the largest moral reform movement of the twentieth century /

Haugeberg, Karissa, 1978-

Women against abortion : inside the largest moral reform movement of the twentieth century / Karissa Haugeberg. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Women, gender, and sexuality in American history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- The emergence of crisis pregnancy centers -- The invention of postabortion syndrome -- Feminist Catholic women's grassroots antiabortion activism -- Women and the rescue movement -- Women and lethal violence in the antiabortion movement -- Epilogue: the legacies of women's work in the antiabortion movement.



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Pro-life movement--History--United States--20th century.
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Women--Political activity--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic Books.

HQ767 / .W664 2017