Laura Kaplan was a member of Jane and founding member of the Emma Goldman Women's Health Center in Chicago. After moving to rural Wisconsin, she attended home births as a lay-midwife and established a shelter-based program for battered women. When she moved to the East Coast, she worked as an advocate for nursing home residents and was the managed care project director for Citizen Action of New York. She is on the board of the National Women's Health Network and has been involved in a variety of community projects.
“A dramatic and important piece of women’s history.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[A] powerful story . . . invaluable to organizers, feminist
historians, and anyone concerned about contemporary threats to
personal liberty.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Remarkable. . . . Kaplan’s engrossing tales of the quiet courage
of the women who risked their reputations and freedom to help
others may remind many readers of other kinds of outlaws who have
resisted tyranny throughout history.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“This is lively, nuanced history that brings to life the hopes,
terrors, and disappointments of a movement committed to giving
women control over their own bodies.”
—Booklist
“Kaplan tells all about Jane's inspiring history in this fantastic
book.”
—Bustle
“As a study of this remarkable but little-known phenomenon, this
book will be of value to anyone interested in women’s health, the
women’s movement, and women’s reproductive health and rights,
particularly now that those rights are coming under increasing
attack.”
—Library Journal
“Kaplan, who joined Jane in 1971, has pieced together the histories
of the anonymous (here identified only by pseudonyms),
average-sounding women who transformed themselves into
outlaws.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The Story of Jane is a piece of women’s history in step with
feminist theory demanding that women tell their own stories. It
serves to remind people of an important and often overlooked moment
in the women’s rights movement.”
—Seattle Weekly
“[Kaplan] draws on her personal recollections and interviews with
Jane members and clients and the doctors who performed the
abortions to provide a well-written, detailed history of this
radical group. . . . A dramatic and important piece of women’s
history.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Weaving together the voices and memories of her former co-workers,
Kaplan recounts how the group initially focused on counseling women
and helping them find reliable, reasonably priced doctors. . . .
Kaplan’s account of this remarkable story recaptures the political
idealism of the early ‘70s. . . . 23 years after Roe v. Wade, the
issues and memories raised by the books are close and all too
relevant.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Fascinating. . . . The Story of Jane succeeds on the steam of
Kaplan’s gripping subject and her moving belief in the power of
small-scale change.”
—Newsday
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