Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500

By Susan Marshall July 15, 2021 Author Interviews 0 comments

Why did illegitimacy matter in medieval Scotland?

Contraception: A Concise History

By Donna Drucker February 25, 2021 Author Interviews 0 comments

Contraception: A Concise History traces the history of contraceptive methods from the opening of the first public women’s contraceptive clinic in 1882 to the present.

In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo December 8, 2020 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann January 16, 2020 Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.

CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality

By Mackenzie Cooley March 9, 2016 CFP 0 comments

How have perceptions of magic shaped sexuality, love, and reproduction?