Creating Choice

A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973

in English, 290 pages,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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“A powerful document of the history of abortion before and after legalization, this book offers a compelling collection of oral history interviews that weave together the story of abortion in an entire community [in western Massachussetts]. Creating Choice gives voice to a group of people whose stories are crucial to our understanding of women’s history but who have so far not been heard. This collection is not only crucial to students of the history of abortion. It provides an equally rare look into the history of the sexual revolution and the women’s health movement on college campuses. Creating Choice is wonderfully accessible, an important collection for anybody trying to understand the history of women and sexuality.” – Johanna Schoen, University of Iowa