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The family Roe : an American story
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"Despite her famous pseudonym, 'Jane Roe,' no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prag...
"Despite her famous pseudonym, 'Jane Roe,' no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers ... and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America"--Inside front jacket.
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- Creator
- Joshua Prager
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- ©2021
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- 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393247718, 0393247716
- OCLC
- on1266274385
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [625]-636) and index.
- Part I. Sex and religion -- Part II. Three Texans -- Part III. Roe v. Wade -- Part IV. "The raw edges of human existence" -- Part V. Undue burden -- Part VI. Born again -- Part VII. Repercussion -- Part VIII. The family Roe
Subjects
- Trials (Abortion) -- United States -- History.
- Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
- McCorvey, Norma, 1947-2017.
- McCorvey, Norma, 1947-2017 -- Family.
- Roe, Jane, 1947-2017 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Wade, Henry -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Coffee, Linda, 1942-
- Boyd, Curtis Wayne.