03112cam a2200361 i 4500 741752290 TxAuBib 20230524120000.0 220708s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022032437 9780306826795 HRD 30.00 0306826798 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Wright, Jennifer Ashley, 1986-, author. Madame Restell [BOOK] : the life, death, and resurrection of old New York's most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist / by Jennifer Wright. First edition. New York : Hachette Books, 2023. xv, 334 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index. 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 women—rich 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 you’ve never heard about”—the campaign to curtail women’s power by restricting their access to both healthcare and careers of their own. Powerful, secular men—threatened by women’s burgeoning independence—were 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 women’s 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. Provided by publisher. 20230524. Restell Madame 1811-1878. Restell Madame 1811-1878. Trials, litigation, etc. Abortion services New York (State) New York History 19th century. Abortion New York (State) New York History 19th century. Women in medicine New York (State) New York Biography. Patent medicines New York (State) New York History 19th century. Trials (Abortion) New York (State) New York History 19th century. Biographies.