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This well-written history bears a meaningful resemblance to the post-Roe era. Anyone interested in the present-day devolution of women's bodily autonomy will learn how Americans once empowered women, not individually but as a group, to police one another. . . . [A] worthwhile read.""--North Carolina Historical Review Proving Pregnancy offers a valuable contribution to historians' understanding of how modern concepts of identity and community are shaped by gender and sexuality, as well as how knowledge can constitute a form of ownership.""--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society A call for scholars to recognize knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth as akin to a form of property. . . . Proving Pregnancy challenges the progressive narrative of history, showing how as women and African Americans achieved some gains in rights, they sacrificed an important source of power they had once monopolized.""--Black Perspectives In this illuminating new book, Felicity Turner makes a vital contribution to the growing scholarship around women's reproductive health in the nineteenth century. . . . The rich and challenging stories she weaves using coroners' inquests make this a fascinating, though often heart-breaking, book to read.""--Gender & History Turner has uncovered an important and provocative set of sources and opened a path for further investigation of troubled births, in the past and present.""--Nursing Clio

"This well-written history bears a meaningful resemblance to the post-Roe era. Anyone interested in the present-day devolution of women's bodily autonomy will learn how Americans once empowered women, not individually but as a group, to police one another. . . . [A] worthwhile read.""--North Carolina Historical Review Proving Pregnancy offers a valuable contribution to historians' understanding of how modern concepts of identity and community are shaped by gender and sexuality, as well as how knowledge can constitute a form of ownership.""--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society A call for scholars to recognize knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth as akin to a form of property. . . . Proving Pregnancy challenges the progressive narrative of history, showing how as women and African Americans achieved some gains in rights, they sacrificed an important source of power they had once monopolized.""--Black Perspectives In this illuminating new book, Felicity Turner makes a vital contribution to the growing scholarship around women's reproductive health in the nineteenth century. . . . The rich and challenging stories she weaves using coroners' inquests make this a fascinating, though often heart-breaking, book to read.""--Gender & History Turner has uncovered an important and provocative set of sources and opened a path for further investigation of troubled births, in the past and present.""--Nursing Clio"

"Proving Pregnancy offers a valuable contribution to historians' understanding of how modern concepts of identity and community are shaped by gender and sexuality, as well as how knowledge can constitute a form of ownership.""--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society A call for scholars to recognize knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth as akin to a form of property. . . . Proving Pregnancy challenges the progressive narrative of history, showing how as women and African Americans achieved some gains in rights, they sacrificed an important source of power they had once monopolized.""--Black Perspectives In this illuminating new book, Felicity Turner makes a vital contribution to the growing scholarship around women's reproductive health in the nineteenth century. . . . The rich and challenging stories she weaves using coroners' inquests make this a fascinating, though often heart-breaking, book to read.""--Gender & History Turner has uncovered an important and provocative set of sources and opened a path for further investigation of troubled births, in the past and present.""--Nursing Clio"

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Felicity M. Turner is associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University.

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