before life and choice, 1880-1940
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Weingarten, Karen
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 34 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- abortussen, historisch, literatuur, film, kranten, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 1880-1889, 1890-1899, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949
- Description
- In this publication, the author 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 the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century.