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Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade / David J. Garrow.

Title: Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade / David J. Garrow.
Author: Garrow, David J., 1953-
Publication: New York : Macmillan Publishing Company ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1994]

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v, 981 pages; 25 cm

Summary

The author follows the "right to privacy" from its beginnings in the attempts to repeal the Connecticut law banning birth control in the 1930s to the 1965 "Griswald v. Connecticut" decision and the 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision to the present abortion and gay rights cases.

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"A Lisa Drew book."
"A Twentieth Century Fund book"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 916-945) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The Waterbury origins of Roe v. Wade -- No further service : Connecticut's struggle for the legalization of birth control, 1940-1953 -- One vote shy : Estelle Griswold, Fowler Harper, and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1954-1961 -- Creating the right to privacy : Estelle Griswold and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1961-1965 -- Lonely voices : abortion reformers and the origins of change, 1933-1967 -- From reform to repeal : the right to abortion, 1967-1969 -- Into the courts : Roe, Doe, & the right to abortion, 1969-1971 -- The right to abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1971-1973 -- Liberty & sexuality since Roe v. Wade.

ISBN

0025427555
9780025427556

LCCN

93008231

OCLC

28113351
SCSB-10349163

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Harvard Library