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Miscarriage in Nineteenth Century America

Shannon Withycombe’s Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America puts miscarriage at the center of the study of nineteenth-century science, medicine, and women’s experience with their reproductive bodies. You may be surprised by the range of responses to pregnancy loss, motherhood, and reproduction in the 19th century. Listen, download, watch on YouTube, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 weeks2 weeks ago
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Abortion and Birth Control in America: Jane Roe & The Pill

In the third episode in our series on women’s reproductive rights in America, Jane Roe & the Pill, we finally get to two of the most important turning points in our story: the invention of the hormonal birth control pill, and the Roe v. Wade case in 1973. The mid Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year10 months ago
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Crime

The Suitcase Murder: Abortion, Mystery and Murder in 20th Century America

On September 21, 1905, a suitcase floated to the water’s surface in Winthrop Harbor, a shallow six-foot deep man-made channel, about three miles north of Boston Harbor. Stuffed inside the seemingly innocuous case was the torso of a “young and beautifully formed woman” whose intestines and stomach had been removed, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year10 months ago
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Episode

Early American Family Limitation: Contraception and Abortion

Sarah and Elizabeth discuss methods of family limitation in Early America. Just in case you need some tips.

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year10 months ago
Episode

Fascism and Uteruses

Averill and Marissa discuss abortion and birth control in 20th century Japan and Germany.

By Averill Earls, 2 years1 year ago
Episode

Family Limitation in the Pre-Modern World

Marissa and Averill discuss the wild, weird, and sometimes dangerous methods of family limitation in the pre-modern world.

By Marissa Rhodes, 2 years2 years ago
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