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Susan Faludi

Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash and, most recently, In the Darkroom. (November 2023)

‘Hag of Misery’

‘Hag of Misery’

The midwife and abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime

by Nicholas L. Syrett

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

by Jennifer Wright

November 2, 2023 issue

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