Current Issue

Making modern maternity

• Making Modern Maternity (14 August, 2024)

  Whitney Wood, Heather A Love, Jerika Sanderson, Karen Weingarten
• The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms (29 June, 2024)

  Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge
• Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives (20 May, 2024)

  Tiago Fernandes Maranhão
• “The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine

  (17 May, 2024)

  Jerika Sanderson, Heather A Love
• Federal field nurses and Indigenous births (11 July, 2024)

  Laurel Sanders
• Motherhood, medicine and magazines in interwar Vienna: the case of Die Mutter (The Mother, 1924–1926)

  (26 July, 2024)

  Alys X George
• Raising the Jewish nation: prescriptions of modern motherhood in folksgeszunt to Jews in interwar Eastern Europe

  (27 May, 2024)

  Ethell Alexandra Gershengorin
• ‘What’s a D and C between friends?’ Space, intimacy and the medicalisation of unmotherhood in modernist literature (27 May, 2024)

  Kate Schnur
• ‘Mrs. Don’t Care’: refusing modern Black motherhood in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

  (24 May, 2024)

  Matty Hemming
• Lanka Mahila Samiti, Mary Rutnam and girls’ education (1 April, 2024)

  Jessica Annette Albrecht
• You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)

  (3 June, 2024)

  Kate Errington
• Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women (10 April, 2024) Free

  Victoria Rose Gregorio, Sneha Mantri
• Fluid modernities: the birthing pool in late twentieth-century Britain (26 June, 2024)

  Victoria Bates, Jennifer Crane, Maria Fannin
• The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand (22 April, 2024)

  Charlotte Greenhalgh
• The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television (10 April, 2024)

  Chelsea Wenzhu Xu
• From the womb to the world: a study of pregnancy narratives by celebrity moms in India (24 May, 2024)

  Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra
• Smoothies, bone broth, and fitspo: the historicity of TikTok postpartum bounce-back culture (28 May, 2024)

  Bethany L Johnson, Margaret M Quinlan, Audrey Curry
• #Headlesspreggos: challenging visual imaginaries of pregnancy and reproduction (31 May, 2024)

  Alana Cattapan, Danielle Mastromatteo