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"This book fills a gap created when overtly politicized and polarized writing on abortion is removed. It seeks to explore the ways in which theater can serve as a particularly useful place to explore abortion. This book is about abortion and the complex web we have woven around it - as a medical act, social statement, and personal transgression. This study is also about the illumination of that web by the light of abortion's public appearance on the theatre stage through six American plays that premiered in the decade 1997-2007, which all feature abortion prominently: Keith Bunin's ""The Credeaitx Canvas"", Elizabeth Heffron's ""Mitzi's Abortion"", Wendy MacLeod's ""The Water Children"", Dominique Morisseau's ""Retrospect for Life"", Suzan-Lori Parks' ""Fucking a"", and Paula Kamen's ""Jane: Abortion and the Underground""."

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"""... I felt that as a result of this reading... I had been schooled in a methodology for fairly and ethically investigating any issue. I cannot think of any higher acclaim for a piece of academic writing."" (Dr. Beth Osnes University of Colorado) ""...original, smart, and very provocative..."" (Dr. Merrill J. Lessley University of Colorado-Boulder)"""

... I felt that as a result of this reading... I had been schooled in a methodology for fairly and ethically investigating any issue. I cannot think of any higher acclaim for a piece of academic writing. (Dr. Beth Osnes University of Colorado) ...original, smart, and very provocative... (Dr. Merrill J. Lessley University of Colorado-Boulder)

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