Book Event: The Abortion Market by Katherine J. Parkin

Join us for a very interesting BOOK LAUNCH with Katherine J. Parkin in conversation with ABC's Feminist Book Club leader, Laura Bagwell presenting THE ABORTION MARKET: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe!

Saturday, September 20th at 5pm.

The $40 ticket option includes an RSVP to the event and a BOOK!

The $5 General Admission ticket includes an RSVP and you will recieve a $5 coupon to use at the time of the event!

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About the Book:

The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. Before legalization lowered the cost, one million women each year collectively paid upward of $750 million for abortions. In this illuminating book, Katherine J. Parkin reveals the strength of a massive consumer market that involved loans, advertising, and travel, as well as the costs associated with the procedure itself. Parkin shows how white, middle- and upper-class women sought out abortions and paid exorbitantly for them and how male entrepreneurs emerged to capitalize on the booming market and profit from the incredible demand. While we may have imagined that securing an abortion was best understood as a hidden, woman-only experience, The Abortion Market reveals the extent to which businesses and businessmen openly selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women.

About the Author:

Katherine J. Parkin is Professor of History at Monmouth University. She isauthor of Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars and Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Host or Publisher Asbury Book Cooperative