Lost :
Lost : illegal abortion stories /
Illegal abortion stories
edited Jo Wainer.
- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2006.
- ix, 214 p. ; 20 cm.
"Foreword by Helen Garner"-- Cover.
The stories of women who had illegal abortions from the 1930s onwards in Australia. They cross class boundaries and offer real insight into what women's lives were like - their working lives, the prevailing social attitudes, lack of sex education, social stigmas and mores. The accounts are interspersed with accounts from doctors and nurses.
0522852319 (pbk.)
Wainer, Bertram Barney, 1928-1987.
Abortion--History.--Australia
Abortion--Law and legislation--History.--Australia
Women--Social conditions.--Australia
Abortion (Australia). Women's studies.
363.460994
"Foreword by Helen Garner"-- Cover.
The stories of women who had illegal abortions from the 1930s onwards in Australia. They cross class boundaries and offer real insight into what women's lives were like - their working lives, the prevailing social attitudes, lack of sex education, social stigmas and mores. The accounts are interspersed with accounts from doctors and nurses.
0522852319 (pbk.)
Wainer, Bertram Barney, 1928-1987.
Abortion--History.--Australia
Abortion--Law and legislation--History.--Australia
Women--Social conditions.--Australia
Abortion (Australia). Women's studies.
363.460994
