{"product_id":"pushback-the-2-500-year-fight-to-thwart-women-by-restricting-abortion-hardcover","title":"Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Fissell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long history of how restricting access to abortion has been used to curtail women's advancement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Attitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back again. What accounts for these pendulum swings? From ancient Greece to the modern West, historian of medicine Mary Fissell argues, abortion repression springs up in response to men's anxieties about women's increasing independence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003ePushback\u003c\/i\u003e, Fissell shows that, across centuries and continents, abortion has always been commonplace, and persecuting women for ending pregnancies has been about controlling their behavior. As Protestantism de-emphasized celibacy, new abortion restrictions policed unmarried women's sex lives. Nineteenth-century men unsettled by first-wave feminism hoped to establish medicine as a male profession, and so advocated for abortion bans to undercut women's new roles as physicians. Fissell presents this history through the hidden stories of women committed to reproductive self-determination: holy women of the early Catholic Church whose ability to end pregnancies was considered miraculous, midwives accused of witchcraft or criminal conspiracy, and everyday women whose pregnancies threatened their livelihoods--and their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePushback \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for understanding the complex history of abortion and making sense of recent crackdowns on reproductive rights.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back again. What accounts for these pendulum swings? From ancient Greece to the modern West, historian of medicine Mary Fissell argues abortion repression springs up in response to men's anxieties about women's increasing independence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003ePushback\u003c\/i\u003e, Fissell shows that, across centuries and continents, abortion has always been commonplace, and persecuting women for ending pregnancies has been about controlling their behavior. As Protestantism de-emphasized celibacy, new abortion restrictions policed unmarried women's sex lives. Nineteenth-century men unsettled by first-wave feminism hoped to establish medicine as a male profession and so advocated for abortion bans to undercut women's new roles as physicians. Fissell presents this history through the hidden stories of women committed to reproductive self-determination: holy women of the early Catholic Church whose ability to end pregnancies was considered miraculous, midwives accused of witchcraft or criminal conspiracy, and everyday women whose pregnancies threatened their livelihoods and lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePushback\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for understanding the complex history of abortion and making sense of recent crackdowns on reproductive rights.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Fissell\u003c\/b\u003e is the Mario Molina Professor in the department of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Fissell has appeared on the BBC and has been cited as an expert in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52064918831405,"sku":"9781541604070","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/pushback-the-2500-year-fight-to-thwart-women-by-restricting-abortion-hardcover-2670219.webp?v=1780167905","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/pushback-the-2-500-year-fight-to-thwart-women-by-restricting-abortion-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}