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List of Plates		vii
Preface		ix
Towards a Cultural History of Abortion		1	(25)
Historical perspectives		8	(11)
Cultures of abortion in Weimar Germany		19	(7)
Cultural Representation: Abortion on Stage, Screen and in Fiction		26	(38)
Abortion in the movies		31	(9)
The novel Gilgi and the female reader and spectator		40	(2)
Socialist plays and novels		42	(11)
Abortion pathologized		53	(11)
Medical Termination of Pregnancy: Theory and Practice		64	(30)
The case of Dr Hartmann		67	(3)
Abortion in the medical discourse		70	(1)
Divided opinion within the medical profession		71	(5)
Medical blunders and legal practice		76	(3)
The case of Dr Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann		79	(6)
Financial considerations		85	(2)
Medical attitude and medical power		87	(3)
Women`s experience		90	(4)
Abortion in the Marketplace: Lay Practitioners and Doctors Compete		94	(33)
The anti-quackery campaign		94	(5)
Self-induced abortions		99	(3)
Lay abortionists		102	(3)
Gender and the abortionist		105	(6)
The careers of `wise women`		111	(3)
The safety record of quack abortionists		114	(9)
Methods and money		123	(2)
Class differences and shared culture		125	(2)
Women`s Own Voices: Female Perceptions of Abortion		127	(36)
The construction of the criminal in abortion trials		130	(6)
The experience of abortion		136	(12)
`Blocked menses` (Blutstockung) as a popular lay concept		148	(3)
Advertising abortifacients		151	(3)
Women`s sensory perceptions		154	(9)
Abortion as an Everyday Experience in Village Life: A Case Study from Hesse		163	(38)
Rural communities in decline		167	(7)
Female communication networks		174	(5)
Reproductive Eigensinn		179	(2)
Rebellious women and men		181	(5)
Relations between the sexes		186	(6)
The career of a successful abortionist		192	(3)
Denunciation		195	(4)
Conclusions		199	(2)
Abortion in Early Twentieth-century Germany: Continuity and Change		201	(26)
Gender roles and gender relations		203	(6)
The blurring of boundaries		209	(5)
Continuity and change		214	(2)
Abortion in Nazi Germany		216	(7)
Continuity with Imperial Germany		223	(4)
Abbreviations		227	(1)
Notes		228	(32)
Bibliography		260	(19)
Index		279

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