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241) Happening
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Annie Ernaux recounts her experience with abortion during a time when it was illegal in 1960s France."--
242) My life as a rhombus
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life.
244) La Mirada de Juliana
Author
Publisher
World Spiritist Institute
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El romance "La Mirada de Juliana" gira en torno a un amor tan grande que es capaz de atravesar siglos, luchar contra acontecimientos, dificultades y desacuerdos para tener derecho al reencuentro.
Dinámico y dramático, se intercala con momentos de profundo éxtasis, que vibran luminosamente en las almas sensibles.
De sus entresijos surge uno de los problemas humanos más dolorosos, el aborto, como un tema que necesita
245) 20 fingers
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Persian
Description
Seven vignettes, featuring the same two actors as different characters, explore the heartbreak and joy of relationships. Some problems are universal, while others reveal the harsh realities of modern-day Iran, especially for women.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him"--
Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. The Comstock law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. Between 1873 and Comstock's death in 1915, eight women were charged...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"On May 31, 2009, Scott Roeder walked into a Wichita church, drew a pistol, and shot Dr. George Tiller at point blank range. Tiller, who was the most public practitioner of late-term abortions in America, had been a lightning rod for controversy, regularly referred to in the conservative media as "Tiller, the Baby Killer." Tiller's death was not an isolated act of violence, but a pivotal, public murder in a war that has been raging for decades. It's...
250) In trouble
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s New York, sixteen-year-old Jamie's life is unsettled since her father returned from serving time in prison for refusing to name people as Communists, when her best friend turns to Jamie for help with an unplanned pregnancy.
Author
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Here is a moving and fascinating profile in courage, a compelling drama of committed women tunneling out from under dogma and denial toward enlightenment and adult responsibility. Brilliantly told by two heroic, sympathetic, and intensely contemporary women.
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is only alive because she was rescued after a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her parents, and her own journey from rage and shame to faith and empowerment. After a decade-long search Melissa finally locates her father and writes to extend forgiveness, only to read that he has died suddenly-before he can answer her burning questions. Then her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the economic, emotional, and life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom.On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and suddenly the right to an abortion in America was no longer guaranteed. The impact was immediate: by the beginning of 2023, the procedure was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in...
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"My Mom Had an Abortion is a unique coming-of-age tale told by a self-described dyslexic-asexual-lesbian-feminist teenager and illustrated by body-positive comic artist Tatiana Gill. We follow our protagonist Beezus B. Murphy as she chronicles her evolving understanding of menstruation, reproduction, and abortion and finds her place in a confusing world. Initially influenced by harmful narratives in pop media such as the "the pregnant teenager" cliche,...
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara...
260) 10 Rillington Place
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In 1949, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's abolishment of the death penalty." --
