Intimate Politics: Fertility Control in Global Historical Perspective

This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women’s bodies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Cassia Roth is Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the author of A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil and articles in Gender & History, Journal of Women’s History, Slavery & Abolition, Medical History, and História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, among others. She has an MPH in Epidemiology and a PhD in History.

Diana Paton is William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. Her books include No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870, and The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World.