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The family Roe : an American story  Cover Image Book Book

The family Roe : an American story / Joshua Prager.

Prager, Joshua, (author.).

Summary:

"Despite her famous pseudonym, 'Jane Roe,' no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers ... and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America"--Inside front jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393247718
  • ISBN: 0393247716
  • Physical Description: 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-636) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. Sex and religion -- Part II. Three Texans -- Part III. Roe v. Wade -- Part IV. "The raw edges of human existence" -- Part V. Undue burden -- Part VI. Born again -- Part VII. Repercussion -- Part VIII. The family Roe.
Subject: McCorvey, Norma, 1947-2017.
McCorvey, Norma, 1947-2017 > Family.
Roe, Jane, 1947-2017 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Wade, Henry > Trials, litigation, etc.
Coffee, Linda, 1942-
Boyd, Curtis Wayne.
Trials (Abortion) > United States > History.
Abortion > Law and legislation > United States > History.

Available copies

  • 15 of 15 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 15 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center 973 PRA 2021 (Text) 0002205467430 Adult Non-Fiction Available -


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