Certain Concealments
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A01=Dana Medoro
A01=Sarah Clarke
Abortion
abortion in historical fiction
abortion laws before Roe v. Wade
abortion laws in the 1800s
abortion themes in 19th-century literature
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Author_Dana Medoro
Author_Sarah Clarke
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best books on women's health history
birth control in early America
books about Madame Restell and abortion
books on abortion and the law
books on abortion history
books on the history of contraception
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criminalization of abortion in U.S. history
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early American reproductive laws
early birth control methods
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and abortion
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famous 19th-century scandals
gender roles in early America
history of abortion in the U.S.
history of midwifery
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Madame Restell
Madame Restell scandal
medical ethics and abortion in history
medical practices in the 1800s
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne and reproductive rights
Nationalism
Nineteenth-Century America
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Plantation
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reproductive justice in early America
reproductive rights in early America
Rue Morgue
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the rise of anti-abortion laws
The Scarlet Letter
White Supremacy
women's agency in American history
women's autonomy in American history
women's legal rights
women's reproductive health in the 1800s
women's rights before the suffrage movement
Product details
- ISBN 9781625346476
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.
Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
