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Simonds, Wendy, 1962 Abortion at work: ideology and practice in a feminist clinic / by Wendy Simonds. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8135-2244-7 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-8135-2245-5 (pbk: alk. paper) 1. AbortionSocial aspectsUnited StatesCase studies. 2. Abortion servicesUnited StatesEmployeesCase studies. 3. FeminismUnited StatesCase studies. I. Title. HQ767.5.U5S54 1996 363.4'6'0973dc2095-19055 CIP
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Copyright 1996 by Wendy Simonds All rights reserved Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey Manufactured in the United States of America
Page v
I dedicate this book, with love, to those with whom I have been most intimately connected in the procreative sense: my mother, Bobbie Simonds; my father, Gordon Simonds; my sister, Lauren Simonds; my true love, Randy Malamud; and our child, Jacob Alon Simonds-Malamud.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix
INTRODUCTION
Abortion Work and Feminist Ideology
1
Part One: Feminists Working
CHAPTER ONE
Feminist Work: Health Care Provision and Identity
25
CHAPTER Two
Feminist Abortion Practice: Getting Graphic
60
CHAPTER THREE
Anti-Feminism Personified: Encounters with the Enemy
103
Part Two: Working Feminism
CHAPTER FOUR
Feminist Workplace?: Examining Contradictions in Institutional Ideology
137
CHAPTER FIVE
Purging the Enemy Within: Feminists Approach Racism
169
CONCLUSION
Feminism and (F)utility: Assessing the Future of Procreative Freedom
207
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CENTER PERSONNEL TABLE
237
NOTES
239
SOURCES
247
INDEX
257
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGENTS
I want to thank K. T. Slaughter, who was my original connection with the women whose work and words are the basis of this book. I wish I could thank the women by name here. You know who you are! It was truly a privilege to be let into your lives, and I shall always be grateful.
Joan Acker, Myra Marx Ferree, Jo Freeman, Jenny Kronenfeld, Pat Martin, and Rose Weitz read and responded to various drafts of articles that preceded the book; their comments were helpful in shaping pieces that eventually grew into chapters (especially Chapter Three). Pat and Myra's conference on feminist organizations was an invaluable opportunity to meet comrades in research. (Parts of Chapters Three and Four appear as an article in their book
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