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Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

✍ Scribed by Hoffman, Merle


Book ID
107803602
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
207 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781558617575

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose.

Over the years, Hoffman has used her entrepreneurial spirit to build one of the most comprehensive women's medical centers in the country. In 1971 (two years before the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion nationally), Hoffman founded Choices, an abortion clinic in New York. As a medical provider, she pioneered "patient power," encouraging women to participate in their own health care decisions. And going against even her own expectations for her life after fifty, she adopted a child and writes about her experience as a mother.

Whether addressing the murder of abortion providers like Dr. George Tiller or challenging women to understand their own power over their bodies and the language used to wield such power, Merle Hoffman has...


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