Preface
Part I: Sex Introduction
Averill Earls
Sister Mariana’s Spyglass: The Unreliable Ghost of Female Desire in a Convent Archive Anna Weerasinghe
"Unfortunate Attachments": Interracial Sapphism in Progressive Era Reformatories and Prisons Cookie Woolner
“Sex isn’t just having babies…”: Sex Education for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in the US, 1960s-1970s
John Carranza
PrEP, The Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity Ian Lekus
How to Do It: Sex Education and the “Sex Life” Joseph Gamble
Part II: Contraception Introduction
Lauren MacIvor Thompson
Birth Control on Display; Or, What Do I Do With All These IUDs? Amanda Mahoney
IUDs and Their Legacy in China Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
The Women’s Health Movement and the Dream of the Diaphragm Lea Eisenstein
“Just a Pinch:” Pain, IUDs, and Consciousness-Raising Evan Hart
The Pills
Kelly O’Donnell
Part III: Pregnancy Introduction
Scottie Buehler
Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb
Nina S. Studer
Eugenic Babies and the Dark History of Sperm Donations Karen Weingarten
How I Met My Mother: The Story of an Unexpected Pregnancy Catherine Denial
Midwives and Pregnant Transgender Men: Laboring Towards Ethical Care Elizabeth Reis
Part IV: Abortion Introduction
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
Pigeons and Blasphemy: Tracing Abortion in Colonial Courtrooms Mary Fissell
Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced Abortion Sarah Pripas-Kapit
The Miseries and Heartbreak of Backstreet Abortions: Before and After Roe Gillian Frank and Ronit Y. Stahl
What Feminists Did the Last Time Abortion Was Illegal Michelle Moravec
Who Roe Failed: Class and Race in Abortion Before Dobbs Katrina Kimport
Retirement Life: Escorting Clinic Patients Janet Golden
Part V: Loss Introduction
Ciara Breathnach
The Evidence of Infanticide Felicity Turner
Maternal Grief in Black and White: Enslaved Mothers and Antislavery Literature on the Eve of War
Cassandra Berman
Infant and Child Mortality and Black Activism in the Progressive Era Elizabeth Garner Masarik
Historicizing Stillbirth Kirsten Leng
On Mothers Who Kill and the Racialization of Postpartum Mental Illness Udodiri R. Okwandu
Enforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage is Just Plain Cruel Lara Freidenfelds
Part VI: Childbirth Introduction
Judith Walzer Leavitt
How My Postpartum Guilt Was Healed by a 17th-Century Poet Elizabeth Kolkovich
What to Expect When You’re Expiring: Pregnancy and Death in Seventeenth-Century England Maggie Vinter
"For Serving as Midwife": Enslaved Women and Networks of Care in Revolutionary America Sara Collini
Is Childbirth Painful? Or, a Short History of Medicine and Culture Nora Doyle
Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide
P. Mimi Niles and Michelle Drew
The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant – Breast Milk as a Superfood Theresa Ventura
Part VII: Violence Introduction
Kylie Smith
The Black Politics of Eugenics
Ayah Nuriddin
Training Future Wives and Mothers: Vocational Education and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School
Samantha M. Williams
“The Torture Began”: Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern Ireland Cara Delay
What Do You Think I’m Worth?: Forced Sterilization in Post-World War II America Rebecca Kluchin
When the War on Rape Met the War on Crime: A Black Women’s Perspective Caitlin Wiesner
The Stain of Slavery Is Silencing Sexual Violence Against Black and Brown Women Sharon Folkenroth Hess
“Consent”-To-Yes and Pelvic Healthcare Examinations Stephanie Tillman
“If they were white and insured, would they have died?”: Contextualizing the 2022 Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Report
Udodiri R. Okwandu
Part VIII: Justice Introduction
Susan Reverby
Why We Need the Pink Triangle in the Era of “Don’t Say Gay” Jake Newsome
Silence and Noise: What AIDS Activism and Social Memory Can Teach Us
Sarah Swedberg
The Sex Lady Talks: Disability Rights and the Normalization of Sex in a 1980s Institution Elizabeth A. Nelson, Emily S. Beckman, and Modupe Labode
Talking Back to the NIH
J. Nalubega Ross
The Politics of US-Mexico Border Rule and Reproductive (In)Justice Lina-Maria Murillo
Sovereignty Over Our Own Bodies: The Women of All Red Nations and Indigenous Reproductive Activism
Brianna Theobald
Deep in the Heartbeat of Texas Kathleen Crowther Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors Index
