Overview
An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling āboarding houseā provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of womenārich and poor alike. As her practice expanded, her notoriety swelled, and Restell established her-self as a prime target for tabloids, threats, and lawsuits galore. But far from fading into the background, she defiantly flaunted her wealth, parading across the city in designer clothes, expensive jewelry, and bejeweled carriages, rubbing her success in the faces of the many politicians, publishers, fellow physicians, and religious figures determined to bring her down.
Unfortunately for Madame Restell, her rise to the top of her field coincided with āthe greatest scam youāve never heard aboutāāthe campaign to curtail womenās power by restricting their access to both healthcare and careers of their own. Powerful, secular menāthreatened by womenās burgeoning independenceāwere eager to declare abortion sinful, a position endorsed by newly-minted male MDs who longed to edge out their feminine competition and turn medicine into a standardized, male-only practice. By unraveling the misogynistic and misleading lies that put womenās lives in jeopardy, Wright simultaneously restores Restell to her rightful place in history and obliterates the faulty reasoning underlying the very foundation of what has since been dubbed the āpro-lifeā movement.
Thought-provoking, character-driven, boldly written, and feminist as hell, Madame Restell is required reading for anyone and everyone who believes that when it comes to womenās rights, womenās bodies, and womenās history, women should have the last word.
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This book title, Madame Restell (The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist), ISBN: 9780306826795, by Jennifer Wright, published by Hachette Books (February 28, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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