Lost
Illegal Abortion Stories
$46.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2006
Summary
Foreword by Helen Garner’It is chastening to read these bald tales, shockingly direct and unvarnished. Each story contains matter enough for a novel. Each one is a window onto a larger life, a broader world- a tantalising view of endlessly unfolding complexities.‘-Helen GarnerTwenty years ago, Dr Bertram Wainer, the abortion reform doctor and campaigner, placed an advertisement in a newspaper asking women who had illegal abortions to come forward to tell their stories. Their personal testimon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522852318 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522852319 |
| Author: | Jo Wainer |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Jo Wainer
Jo Wainer is Director at the Centre for Gender and Medicine, Monash University and custodian of the transcripts. Her late husband Dr Bertram Wainer was the leading abortion reform doctor who in the 1970s led a long and difficult campaign to overturn the existing abortion laws which led to the Kaye Inquiry into police corruption.
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