Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940

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Abortifacients, 1, 57, 98, 100–101, 104, 107, 115, 162n6, 162n9 Abortion: comparison to birth control, 11, 38, 53–55, 64, 116; controversy, 5, 134–136, 142; cost of, 98, 104–105, 111; discussions in medical journals, 30, 69, 74, 82, 87, 105; feminist interpretations of, 28, 41–43; historical cases of, 21–23, 47–48, 108, 150n33, 150–151n43, 164n63; history of, 10, 12, 20, 54, 76, 140; infanticide as form of, 27, 60; laws about, 8–10, 19, 23, 25, 38, 39, 46–47, 50, 112, 140, 142–143, 150n38, 159n44; nineteenth-century attitudes towards, 28, 31, 37; politics of, 5, 8, 13, 22, 35, 147n4; relationship to class, 15, 24, 31, 38, 46, 49–50, 53–54, 64, 73–74, 83, 86–87, 139, 149n19; relationship to citizenship, 9, 11, 18–19, 22, 33, 36–37, 41, 50–51, 74, 116; representations in film, 2, 24, 89–95; representations in literature, 1–2, 3, 9–10, 12, 14–16, 22– 23, 27–28, 31–37, 44–46, 58–63, 73–76, 81–83, 85–89, 96–101, 104–107, 115–116, 121, 125–126, 133–134, 139–141, 147n5; shame of, 3, 15, 71, 151n50 The Abortion (O’Neill), 2 Abortionists, 2, 21–24, 27–28, 48, 75–76, 81–82, 86, 96, 108–113 Advancing New Studies in Reproductive Health, 148n20 Agamben, Giorgio, 7, 12, 16–17, 21, 33, 120, 128, 130, 160n59 American Medical Association, 10, 22, 25, 29–30, 38, 68–69, 88, 98, 133–134, 158n13, 162n9 An American Tragedy (Dreiser), 12, 99, 102–108, 115, 117 Ann Vickers (Lewis), 11–12, 70–71, 83–89, 158n20 Ann Vickers (film), 91–93 Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 168n64 Arendt, Hannah, 12, 16, 33–34, 118–121, 124, 128, 132, 136, 165n6 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 11, 97–101, 115, 117 Atwood, Margaret, 38 Bad Girl (Delmar), 11, 71–76, 97, 99, 158n19, 158n20, 158n22 Bad Girl (film), 89 Bad Girl (play), 161n96 Bare life, 16–17, 19, 21, 25, 33–34, 120, 128–130, 149n10. See also Biopolitics Barry, John M., 127, 166n26, 166n32 Bauer, Dale, 24, 36–37, 67, 74, 102, 158n21 The Beautiful and Damned (Fitzgerald), 11, 44–46, 51, 153n23, 154n25, 155n47 Beisel, Nicola, 19, 48, 68–69, 149–150n20, 155n45 Benn Michaels, Walter, 102–104, 107 Berg, Allison, 74, 159n31 Index 186 / index Berlant, Lauren, 43 Biopolitics: connection to liberalism, 7, 40–41, 144; connection to race and racism, 16, 19, 83, 144; feminist readings of, 17–18; influence on abortion, 3, 7–8, 11, 13, 19–20, 24–25, 31, 35, 138. See also Bare life; State of exception Birth Control Review, 11, 52, 58, 63, 73, 76. See also Margaret Sanger Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 168n8 Brodie, Janet Farrell, 12, 31, 48, 154n40 Brown, Wendy, 6, 36, 39–40, 43–44, 64–65, 157n12 Buck v. Bell, 157n9 Burrill, Mary, 58–60 Campbell, Timothy, 136–137 Capitalist reproduction, 125–126, 129, 132, 134, 137–138, 145 Capo, Beth Widmaier, 116, 163n31 Carlson, A. Cheree, 3, 108, 113 Chesler, Ellen, 56 Child, Richard Washburn, 127 Choice: component of liberalism, 6, 39–40, 44, 64, 116, 118, 134–138, 152n2; critique of, 2, 5–6, 11, 36, 41–44, 58, 61–64, 138, 141, 143, 152n2; history of term 13, 32, 45, 55, 60, 73, 82 Clinton, Hilary, 143 “The Closing Door” (Grimké), 60–63 Comstock, Anthony: anti-abortion rhetoric and actions, 2, 28, 38, 46–48, 51, 64, 112–114; liberalism, 38–39, 42–44, 47, 49–51, 63–65, 137; reform projects, 11, 38, 46, 48, 67, 154n32, 154n40 “Cora Unashamed” (Hughes), 13, 14–16, 18–19, 149n1 Cornell, Drucilla, 41–43, 167n54 The Country of the Pointed Firs (Jewett), 1, 147n3 Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 39–40, 153n6, 153n7 Daughter of Earth (Smedley), 11, 96, 114–117 Davis, Andrew Jackson, 27 Dawkins, Laura, 60 Dell, Floyd, 3 Delmar, Viña, 70 Deutscher, Penelope, 7 Dobbs, Cynthia, 121, 124, 132–133 Doyle, Laura, 3, 5, 7–8, 74, 159n31 Dreiser, Theodore, 11, 102, 163n42 Dubois, W.E.B., 156–157n92 Duggan, Lisa, 4, 153n10 Duvall, John, 125 Dworkin, Ronald, 134–137, 167n53 Economics: of abortion 3, 9, 11–12, 96–97, 100, 105–108, 111, 115–117; of reproduction 9–10, 98, 100–103, 107, 113–114, 138 Eldred, Janet Carey, 124, 129 English, Daylanne, 63 Eugenics: connection to reproduction 10, 52–53, 55–56, 60, 63, 72–73, 144–145; history of 66–68, 80, 157n9; influence on abortion rhetoric...