'The Evil of the Age': The New York Times and the Politicisation of Abortion, 1871.
In August 1871, the New York Times published the findings of an undercover investigation undertaken by one of its reporters into the abortionists who operated in the city. This coincided with the discovery of the body of Alice Bowlsby in a travelling trunk at a railroad depot, who had died as a resu...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 602 - 621 |
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