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The Abortionist of Howard Street
2024
Overview
Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany,
New York, she was known as \"Dr. Emma Burleigh,\" the abortionist of
Howard Street.
On January 17, 1872, McCarty boarded a streetcar in Utica, New
York, shot her ex-lover in the face, and disembarked, unaware that
her bullet had passed through her target's head and into the heart
of the innocent man sitting beside him. The unlucky passenger died
within minutes. Josephine McCarty was arrested for attempted murder
and quickly became the most notorious woman in central New
York.
The Abortionist of Howard Street was, however, far more
than a murderer. In Maryland she was \"Johnny McCarty,\" a blockade
runner and spy for Confederate forces. New Yorkers whispered of her
as a mistress to corrupt Albany politicians. So who was she?
The prosecution in her murder trial claimed she was a
calculating and heartless operative both in the bedroom and in her
public life. Or was she the victim of ill fortune and the systemic
weight of misogyny and male violence? The answer, of course, was
not as simple as either narrative. In this absorbing and rich
history, R.E. Fulton considers the nuances of Josephine McCarty's
life from marriage to divorce, from financial abuse to quarrels
with intimate partners and more, trying to decipher the truth
behind the stories and myths surrounding McCarty and what
ultimately led her to that Utica streetcar with a pistol in her
dress pocket.
In The Abortionist of Howard Street , Fulton revisites a
rich history of women's experience in mid-nineteenth century
America, revealing McCarty as a multifaceted, fascinating
personification of issues as broad as reproductive health,
education, domestic abuse, mental illness, and criminal
justice.
Publisher
Cornell University Press,Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Pres
Subject
/ Abortion
/ Abortion-United States-History-19th century
/ crime
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
/ Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control
/ upstate
/ Women
ISBN
9781501774829, 1501774824, 1501774840, 9781501774843, 1501774832, 9781501774836
