Splitting the Baby : The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons

, by Myrsiades, Linda S.

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ISBN: 9780820458168 | 0820458163
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2002

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Linda Myrslades is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgment

xiii

The History and Tradition of Abortion Law

(38)

The Anthropology of Abortion

(2)

Midwives, Witchcraft, and Abortion

(3)

Colonial History and Common Law

(9)

Slavery, Reproduction, and Abortion

(4)

Pattern Shifts in Abortion Law

(2)

Storer's Egg, or the Physicians' Campaign

(6)

Conclusion

(6)

Notes

(6)

Rosaries V. Ovaries: The Rhetorics of Abortion

(41)

Legal Metaphors

(3)

Politics and Rhetoric

(1)

Abortion Profiles

(3)

Choice and Life Arguments

(7)

The Public Media

(5)

Prolife Rhetoric and Civil Rights

(3)

Biblical Rhetoric

(2)

Roles in the Abortion Wars

(8)

The Courts

(1)

The Medical Profession

(1)

Reproductive Woman

(3)

The Fetus

(3)

Conclusion

(2)

Notes

(6)

Cartooning Crisis: Visualizing the Abortion Wars

(30)

Women and Abortion in Cartoons

(8)

The Pregnant Male

(4)

The Law in Cartoons

(5)

The Supremes in Cartoon

(5)

Conclusion

102

(4)

Notes

106

(4)

The Poetry of Abortion

110

(29)

The Abortion

110

(7)

Abortion's Effects

117

(4)

Women and Identity

121

(3)

The Male Perspective

124

(8)

Conclusion

132

(5)

Notes

137

(2)

The (Short) Fiction of Abortion

139

(26)

Relationships

139

(7)

The Male Perspective

146

(4)

Race and Abortion

150

(11)

Conclusion

161

(3)

Notes

164

(1)

Conclusion Splitting the Baby

165

(7)

Notes

172

(3)

Works Cited

175

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Splitting the Baby : The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons

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