Lost: illegal abortion stories

Jo Wainer
Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press, 2006

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Book description

Twenty years ago, Dr Bertram Wainer, the abortion reform doctor and campaigner, placed an advertisement in a newspaper asking women who had illegal abortions to come forward to tell their stories. Their personal testimonies and the accounts from doctors and nurses are published for the first time in this collection.

Women had to draw on deep reservoirs of courage and determination faced with the fear of illegal abortion. This collection tells of some of those acts of courage and the difficulties society placed in women's way. Moving and candid, these stories uncover the hidden history of abortion in Australia. [Publisher's website]

About the author
Jo Wainer is Director of the Centre for Gender and Medicine and senior lecturer at Monash University. Her major research interest is women and medicine.

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