The Nursing Clio Reader : Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, The Nursing.

Contributor:

Antonovich, Jacqueline D.

Ansley, Laura.

Handley-Cousins, Sarah E.

Beckman, Emily.

Berman, Cassandra.

Breathnach, Ciara.

Buehler, Scottie Hale.

Carranza, John A.

Collini, Sara.

Series:

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive Health--history.

Social Justice--history.

Political Activism.

Popular Culture.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Reproductive Health--history.

Social Justice--history.

Political Activism.

Popular Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights. The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research and personal experience. Featuring both new and classic pieces from the Nursing Clio blog, leading historians of reproductive health provide insights that connect past struggles with today's ongoing battles. This collection offers intimate, urgent scholarship that speaks to the present moment. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

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 United States, 1960s-1970s / John A. 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 L. Mahoney

IUDs and Their Legacy in China / Sarah Mellors Rodriguez

The Women's Health Movement and the Dream of the Diaphragms / Lea Eisenstein

"Just a Pinch": Pain, IUDs, and Consciousness-Raising / Evan Elizabeth Hart

The Pills / Kelly O'Donnell

Part III: Pregnancy

Introduction / Scottie Hale 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 J. Denial

Midwives and Pregnant Transgender Men: Laboring Toward Ethical Care / Elizabeth Reis

Part IV: Abortion

Introduction / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Pigeons and Blasphemy: Tracing Abortion in Early America / Mary Fissell

Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced Abortion / Sarah Pripas-Kapit

The Miseries and Heartbreaks 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 Abortion Clinic Patients / Janet Golden

Part V: Loss

Introduction / Ciara Breathnach

The Evidence of Infanticide / Felicity M. Turner

Maternal Grief in Black and White: Enslaved Mothers and Antislavery Literatureon 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

No One Has the Same Forty Weeks / Shannon Withycombe

Part VI: Childbirth

Introduction / Judith Walzer Leavitt

How My Postpartum Guilt Was Healed by a Seventeenth-Century Poet / Elizabeth Zeman 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 Maryland / 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 Bhatt 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 M. 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 Reed Wiesner

The Stain of Slavery Is Silencing Sexual Violence against Black and Brown Women / Sharon Folkenroth Hess

"Consent"-to-Yesand 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 M. Reverby

Why We Need the Pink Triangle in the Era of "Don't Say Gay" / W. Jake Newsome

Silence and Noise: What AIDS Activism and Social Memory Can or Can't 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 National Institutes of Health / J. Nalubega Ross

The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Border Rule and Reproductive (In)Justice / Lina-Maria Murillo

Sovereignty over Our Own Bodies: The Women of All Red Nationsand Indigenous Reproductive Activism / Brianna Theobald

Deep in the Heartbeat of Texas / Kathleen Crowther

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Notes on Contributors

Index

Series Page.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, The Nursing The Nursing Clio Reader

ISBN:

9781978838628

OCLC:

1529902816