The Nursing Clio Reader

Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice
Herausgeber: The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of reproductive justice in a time of unprecedented change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978838598
• ISBN-10: 197883859X
• Artikelnr.: 72507243

Autorenporträt

JACQUELINE D. ANTONOVICH is an assistant professor of history at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is the co-founder and executive editor of Nursing Clio, a peer-reviewed blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender, health, and medicine.  SARAH E. HANDLEY-COUSINS is a historian, writer, and podcaster located in Buffalo, New York. Her first book, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, was released by UGA Press in July 2019. She is an associate teaching professor of history at the University at Buffalo. She is also an editor for the history blog Nursing Clio and producer for Dig: A History Podcast.  LAURA ANSLEY is managing editor of the American Historical Association, where she manages Perspectives on History, the AHA's booklets, the annual meeting program, and other publications. She is co-facilitator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals community of interest for the Society of Scholarly Publishing. 

Inhaltsangabe

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