The family Roe : an American story
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--a previously unseen trove--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 flap.
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655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm - Publisher New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
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Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-636) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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