Facets

1970

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…

1978

#7999

Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.

1995

#12022

The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.

"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…

1998

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

2005

#10535

Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…

2008

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

2013

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

2018

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.