Host good evening and welcome to the rare book room. My name is nancy and i am the owner of the store. This strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather benjamin and then on to my father fred and then on to me. For a little bit of history in the late 18 hundreds, syria around this bookstore here in greenwich village, was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. Divine press, and they all had editorial offices and down below, they had theks bookstores to display their books rated along Fourth Avenue just around on that side, was known as book row. And spike of the work 48 used bookstores of which strand is the sole survivor. As the owner of the strand, 18 miles of books, i am not easily faced by 1000 books. But the bucket list, and tonights featured book taught me in my tracks. [applause]. s expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for supplies of detail never again will you have to wonder what to read next. It is a one stop shop holiday gift for anybody wh
Historical overview of the topic of abortion and start nationally and then look at california specifically, specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization and then go back to the National Contact to look at roe v. Wade and some of the legislation thats happened since then and in some of the more recent years. So if you recall from around week 1 or 2, we did have a rebrief zrouks on the topic of abortion in the colonial period nd we talked about sarah gorspiner and her abortion in the 1940s and had a brief introduction to it but today were going to pick up around e time of the com stock act, does anyone remember of the com stock act from a couple weeks ago, can you tell us what it is . [ advertising contraceptives or information on no advertising of contraceptives and the dissemination of the stuff in the mail. So good. The comstock act effectively made it criminal to advertise these things beginning around 1873. Now, we showed you guys
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Specialists and decriminalization. Then we will go back to the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and the legislation that has happened since in more recent years. Weeku recall from around one or two, we had a brief introduction to the topic of abortion in the colonial period. We talked about the graph spinner and her abortion in the 1740s. We had a very brief introduction to it. Today, we are going to pick up around the time of the comstock to. Does everyone remember it from a couple of weeks ago . Can someone remind us what the const act act is . [indiscernible] prof. Gutierrezromine no advertising of contraceptives, especially the dissemination of the stuff in the mail. It effectively made it criminal to advertise these things beginning around 1873. We showed you the political cartoon, comstock was carrying a woman and the caption was she gave birth to a naked baby. The punchline is that he was really crude. It is important to know he doesnt oppose all methods of Birth Control.
This week, we are looking at the topic of abortion. In class on tuesday, we watched a film. That was more about current abortion now. It was looking at abortion in states that had begun to legislate abortion restrictions. Today, we are going to go back in time a little bit. We will give historical context. We will do a historical overview of the topic of abortion. We will start nationally, then we are going to look at california specifically. Specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization. Then we will go back to the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and the legislation that has happened since in more recent years. If you recall from around week one or two, we had a brief introduction to the topic of abortion in the colonial period. We talked about the graph spinner and her abortion in the 1740s. We had a very brief introduction to it. Today, we are going to pick up around the time of the comstock act. Does everyone remember it fr