LEADER 03984nam 2200649 450 001 9910458581403321 005 20210515005915.0 010 $a0-8135-6539-1 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813565392 035 $a(CKB)2550000001279472 035 $a(EBL)1680085 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001193574 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11731467 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193574 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11135752 035 $a(PQKB)10437334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1680085 035 $a(OCoLC)878923555 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34739 035 $a(DE-B1597)530223 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813565392 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1680085 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10864840 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL600678 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001279472 100 $a20140511h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbortion in the American imagination $ebefore life and choice, 1880-1940 /$fKaren Weingarten 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 0 $aThe American Literatures Initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-6530-8 311 0 $a1-306-69427-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Biopolitics of Abortion as the Century Turns --$t2. The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstock and Margaret Sanger: Choice, Rights, and Freedom in Modern America --$t2. The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstock and Margaret Sanger: Choice, Rights, and Freedom in Modern America --$t4. Economies of Abortion: Money, Markets, and the Scene of Exchange --$t5. Making a Living: Labor, Life, and Abortion Rhetoric --$tEpilogue: 1944 and Beyond --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAbout the author 330 $aThe public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race, and gender roles. Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, and Langston Hughes into conversation with the era's films, newspaper articles, and activist rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped our very sense of what it means to be an American. 410 0$aAmerican Literatures Initiative 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAbortion in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAbortion in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 700 $aWeingarten$b Karen$f1980-$01055679 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458581403321 996 $aAbortion in the American imagination$92489264 997 $aUNINA