The Nursing Clio Reader

Preface
Part I: Sex Introduction

Sister 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-1970s
PrEP, The Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity
How to Do It: Sex Education and the "Sex Life"


Part II: Contraception Introduction

Birth Control on Display; Or, What Do I Do With All These IUDs?
IUDs and Their Legacy in China
The Women's Health Movement and the Dream of the Diaphragm
"Just a Pinch:" Pain, IUDs, and Consciousness-Raising
The Pills


Part III: Pregnancy Introduction

Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb
Eugenic Babies and the Dark History of Sperm Donations
How I Met My Mother: The Story of an Unexpected Pregnancy
Midwives and Pregnant Transgender Men: Laboring Towards Ethical Care


Part IV: Abortion Introduction

Pigeons and Blasphemy: Tracing Abortion in Colonial Courtrooms
Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced Abortion
The Miseries and Heartbreak of Backstreet Abortions: Before and After Roe
What Feminists Did the Last Time Abortion Was Illegal
Who Roe Failed: Class and Race in Abortion Before Dobbs
Retirement Life: Escorting Clinic Patients


Part V: Loss Introduction

The Evidence of Infanticide
Maternal Grief in Black and White: Enslaved Mothers and Antislavery Literature on the Eve of War
Infant and Child Mortality and Black Activism in the Progressive Era
Historicizing Stillbirth
On Mothers Who Kill and the Racialization of Postpartum Mental Illness
Enforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage is Just Plain Cruel


Part VI: Childbirth Introduction

How My Postpartum Guilt Was Healed by a 17th-Century Poet
What 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 America
Is Childbirth Painful? Or, a Short History of Medicine and Culture
Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide
The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant - Breast Milk as a Superfood


Part VII: Violence Introduction

The Black Politics of Eugenics
Training Future Wives and Mothers: Vocational Education and Assimilation at the Stewart Indian School
"The Torture Began": Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern Ireland
What Do You Think I'm Worth?: Forced Sterilization in Post-World War II America
When the War on Rape Met the War on Crime: A Black Women's Perspective
The 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 Report


Part VIII: Justice Introduction

Why We Need the Pink Triangle in the Era of "Don't Say Gay"
Silence and Noise: What AIDS Activism and Social Memory Can Teach Us
The Sex Lady Talks: Disability Rights and the Normalization of Sex in a 1980s Institution
Talking Back to the NIH
The Politics of US-Mexico Border Rule and Reproductive (In)Justice
Sovereignty Over Our Own Bodies: The Women of All Red Nations and Indigenous Reproductive Activism
Deep in the Heartbeat of Texas


Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index