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Lost : illegal abortion stories / edited Jo Wainer.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2006.Description: ix, 214 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0522852319 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Illegal abortion stories
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.460994 22
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 363.460994 LOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 64724

"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.

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