Nursing Clio Reader

Jacqueline D. Antonovichis 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.

"Like the website it comes from, The Nursing Clio Reader fills an enormous need. It brings together seasoned and up-and-coming scholars of gender and medicine to address large, thematic problems, rather than narrow politics of the moment. This volume will surely be as relevant in five or ten years as it is now." - Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement"The Nursing Clio Reader highlights the struggle for sexual and reproductive freedom, the violation of groups and individuals' sexual and reproductive self-determination, and movements to fight against state control. The diversity of topics and viewpoints is outstanding, and it is similarly impressive how the editors were able to combine a diversity of viewpoints and experiences with intellectual cohesion, always turning the view back to state policies that limit the ability to control sex and reproduction." - Johanna Schoen, author of Abortion after Roe

• PrefacePart I: Sex IntroductionSister Mariana's Spyglass: The Unreliable Ghost of Female Desire in a Convent Archive"Unfortunate Attachments": Interracial Sapphism in Progressive Era Reformatories and Prisons"Sex isn't just having babies…": Sex Education for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in the US, 1960s-1970sPrEP, The Pill, and the Fear of PromiscuityHow to Do It: Sex Education and the "Sex Life"Part II: Contraception IntroductionBirth Control on Display; Or, What Do I Do With All These IUDs?IUDs and Their Legacy in ChinaThe Women's Health Movement and the Dream of the Diaphragm"Just a Pinch:" Pain, IUDs, and Consciousness-RaisingThe PillsPart III: Pregnancy IntroductionWhere a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the MaghrebEugenic Babies and the Dark History of Sperm DonationsHow I Met My Mother: The Story of an Unexpected PregnancyMidwives and Pregnant Transgender Men: Laboring Towards Ethical CarePart IV: Abortion IntroductionPigeons and Blasphemy: Tracing Abortion in Colonial CourtroomsCoat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced AbortionThe Miseries and Heartbreak of Backstreet Abortions: Before and After RoeWhat Feminists Did the Last Time Abortion Was IllegalWho Roe Failed: Class and Race in Abortion Before DobbsRetirement Life: Escorting Clinic PatientsPart V: Loss IntroductionThe Evidence of InfanticideMaternal Grief in Black and White: Enslaved Mothers and Antislavery Literature on the Eve of WarInfant and Child Mortality and Black Activism in the Progressive EraHistoricizing StillbirthOn Mothers Who Kill and the Racialization of Postpartum Mental IllnessEnforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage is Just Plain CruelPart VI: Childbirth IntroductionHow My Postpartum Guilt Was Healed by a 17th-Century PoetWhat to Expect When You're Expiring: Pregnancy and Death in Seventeenth-Century England"For Serving as Midwife": Enslaved Women and Networks of Care in Revolutionary AmericaIs Childbirth Painful? Or, a Short History of Medicine and CultureConstructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism CollideThe Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant – Breast Milk as a SuperfoodPart VII: Violence IntroductionThe Black Politics of EugenicsTraining Future Wives and Mothers: Vocational Education and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School"The Torture Began": Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern IrelandWhat Do You Think I'm Worth?: Forced Sterilization in Post-World War II AmericaWhen the War on Rape Met the War on Crime: A Black Women's PerspectiveThe Stain of Slavery Is Silencing Sexual Violence Against Black and Brown Women"Consent"-To-Yes and Pelvic Healthcare Examinations"If they were white and insured, would they have died?": Contextualizing the 2022 Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity ReportPart VIII: Justice IntroductionWhy We Need the Pink Triangle in the Era of "Don't Say Gay"Silence and Noise: What AIDS Activism and Social Memory Can Teach UsThe Sex Lady Talks: Disability Rights and the Normalization of Sex in a 1980s InstitutionTalking Back to the NIHThe Politics of US-Mexico Border Rule and Reproductive (In)JusticeSovereignty Over Our Own Bodies: The Women of All Red Nations and Indigenous Reproductive ActivismDeep in the Heartbeat of TexasAcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsNotes on ContributorsIndex