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Winner of the 1995 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association and the Choice Outstanding Book of 1997

About the Author

Leslie J. Reagan is Professor of History, with affiliations in gender and women's studies, law, media and cinema studies, and medicine, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (UC Press) and coeditor of Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television.

Reviews

"This well-written book is a stellar, complex, and accessible volume that will stand as the definitive history for years to come."--Rickie Solinger, "San Francisco Chronicle Book Review