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Madame Restell: Abortion, Secrecy, and the Making of a Public Enemy

Madame Restell: Abortion, Secrecy, and the Making of a Public Enemy

Sanchez, Alana

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN13: 9798247314547
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Madame Restell was the most famous abortion provider in nineteenth-century America.
She advertised openly in New York newspapers, built a lucrative business serving women in secret, and became a household name-denounced from pulpits, pursued by reformers, and feared by authorities.

In Madame Restell: Abortion, Secrecy, and the Making of a Public Enemy, traces how a single woman came to embody a private market the public refused to acknowledge. Drawing on court records, contemporary reporting, and modern scholarship, this book reconstructs Restell's rise, her repeated encounters with the law, and the moment when federal power finally moved to destroy her.

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