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Monica Klem is an independent scholar whose research has focused on ordinary women's negotiations of moral questions in private and civic life during the nineteenth century. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Pepperdine University and has been published inPhilanthropymagazine and theEncyclopedia of American Philanthropy. She lives in Northern California. Madeleine McDowell is a historian of the nineteenth century whose research has focused on the religious, cultural, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two young sons.
"""Klem and McDowell's fascinating book brings us right into the midst of the intricate web of discussion and debate animating the feminist movement of the post-Civil War era. This was a time when the causes of women's suffrage and the protection of the unborn were strongly linked together, seen by activists as two elements in a larger campaign for the comprehensive elevation of women's agency and status in society. Their humane vision deserves to be remembered and reconsidered today.""-Wilfred M. McClay, Victor Davis Hanson Chair of Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College ""We have long known that the 19th century women's rights advocates opposed abortion. But now, in this meticulously researched and engaging new book, we are invited to enter their world, to view women's travails through their discerning and compassionate eyes. Introducing us anew to the nation's earliest women doctors and other little-known advocates for women and children, Pity for Evil unearths a generation of women leaders whose moral clarity, intelligence, and tenacity will inform and inspire."" -Erika Bachiochi, author of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision"
