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 Preface vii Part I SEX 1 Introduction 3 Averill Earls Sister Mariana''s Spyglass: The Unreliable Ghost of Female Desire in a Convent Archive 8 Anna Weerasinghe "Unfortunate Attachments": Interracial Sapphism in Progressive Era Reformatories and Prisons 12 Cookie Woolner "Sex Isn''t Just Having Babies .": Sex Education for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in the United States, 1960s-1970s 17 John A. Carranza PrEP, the Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity 22 Ian Lekus How to Do It: Sex Education and the "Sex Life" 29 Joseph Gamble Part II CONTRACEPTION 33 Introduction 35 Lauren MacIvor Thompson Birth Control on Display, or What Do I Do with All These IUDs? 39 Amanda L. Mahoney IUDs and Their Legacy in China 46 Sarah Mellors Rodriguez The Women''s Health Movement and the Dream of the Diaphragm 51 Lea Eisenstein "Just a Pinch:" Pain, IUDs, and Consciousness-Raising 56 Evan Elizabeth Hart The Pills 61 Kelly O''Donnell Part III PREGNANCY 65 Introduction 67 Scottie Hale Buehler Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb 73 Nina S. Studer Eugenic Babies and the Dark History of Sperm Donations 79 Karen Weingarten How I Met My Mother: The Story of an Unexpected Pregnancy 84 Catherine J. Denial Midwives and Pregnant Transgender Men: Laboring Toward Ethical Care 89 Elizabeth Reis Part IV ABORTION 93 Introduction 95 Alicia Gutierrez-Romine Pigeons and Blasphemy: Tracing Abortion in Early America 100 Mary Fissell Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced Abortion 105 Sarah Pripas-Kapit The Miseries and Heartbreaks of Backstreet Abortions: Before and after Roe 109 Gillian Frank and Ronit Y.

Stahl What Feminists Did the Last Time Abortion Was Illegal 116 Michelle Moravec Who Roe Failed: Class and Race in Abortion before Dobbs 121 Katrina Kimport Retirement Life: Escorting Abortion Clinic Patients 125 Janet Golden Part V LOSS 129 Introduction 131 Ciara Breathnach The Evidence of Infanticide 136 Felicity M. Turner Maternal Grief in Black and White: Enslaved Mothers and Antislavery Literature on the Eve of War 141 Cassandra Berman Infant and Child Mortality and Black Activism in the Progressive Era 146 Elizabeth Garner Masarik Historicizing Stillbirth 150 Kirsten Leng On Mothers Who Kill and the Racialization of Postpartum Mental Illness 156 Udodiri R. Okwandu Enforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage Is Just Plain Cruel 162 Lara Freidenfelds No One Has the Same Forty Weeks 165 Shannon Withycombe Part VI CHILDBIRTH 169 Introduction 171 Judith Walzer Leavitt How My Postpartum Guilt Was Healed by a Seventeenth-Century Poet 176 Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich What to Expect When You''re Expiring: Pregnancy and Death in Seventeenth-Century England 181 Maggie Vinter "For Serving as Midwife": Enslaved Women and Networks of Care in Revolutionary Maryland