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Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical historyMadame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for womens rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.
An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling boarding house provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of womenrich and poor alike. As her practice expanded, her notoriety swelled, and Restell established her-self as a prime target for tabloids, threats, and lawsuits galore. But far from fading into the background, she defiantly flaunted her wealth, parading across the city in designer clothes, expensive jewelry, and bejeweled carriages, rubbing her success in the faces of the many politicians, publishers, fellow physicians, and religious figures determined to bring her down.
Unfortunately for Madame Restell, her rise to the top of her field coincided with the greatest scam youve never heard aboutthe campaign to curtail womens power by restricting their access to both healthcare and careers of their own. Powerful, secular menthreatened by womens burgeoning independencewere eager to declare abortion sinful, a position endorsed by newly-minted male MDs who longed to edge out their feminine competition and turn medicine into a standardized, male-only practice. By unraveling the misogynistic and misleading lies that put womens lives in jeopardy, Wright simultaneously restores Restell to her rightful place in history and obliterates the faulty reasoning underlying the very foundation of what has since been dubbed the pro-life movement.
Thought-provoking, character-driven, boldly written, and feminist as hell, Madame Restell is required reading for anyone and everyone who believes that when it comes to womens rights, womens bodies, and womens history, women should have the last word.
Author: Jennifer Wright
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 02/28/2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.38w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780306826795
Language: English
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