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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Oct 30, 2020

    DOCTOR-AUTHOR BOOK CHAT: LARA FREIDENFELDS, PHD

    Dr. Monique Tello, a primary care doctor and author, interviewed me on her blog: This month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month,...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Oct 14, 2020

    What About Men’s Reproductive Health?

    In her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, sociologist Rene Almeling asks why all the public heal...
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    Pregnancy and Miscarriage on Social Media
    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Oct 6, 2020

    Pregnancy and Miscarriage on Social Media

    New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is natura...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Sep 23, 2020

    During Covid, We Need to Grieve, Find Perspective, and Seek Safe Connection and Fulfillment

    I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper after my community experienced a Covid outbreak from a teen party, resulting in a...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jul 30, 2020

    Accessibility in America Past and Present

    Bess Williamson’s Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design is a thought-provoking and edifying look at the shifting culture...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jul 28, 2020

    Turning Demonstrations into Concrete Change in Chatham

    I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper on June 16. To the Editor: For the past week, African-American Chatham resident E...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jul 28, 2020

    An Incisive History of Cesarean Section

    This is a pre-publication draft of my review of Jacqueline Wolf’s Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Conseque...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Apr 9, 2020

    On-Line Event: Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy

    I'll be discussing The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America on a new on-line platform, called Speakeasy, on...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Mar 14, 2020

    Sperm Donor Siblings Speak Their Truths

    In Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, sociologists Rosanna Hertz and Margaret Nelson ...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jan 27, 2020

    The emergence of the home pregnancy test

    With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies earlie...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jan 2, 2020

    8 myths about pregnancy and miscarriage

    In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I dis...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jan 1, 2020

    How Did We Get Here? An Interview with Lara Freidenfelds (by Shannon Withycombe)

    Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy a...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Dec 31, 2019

    Making Room for Miscarriage

    After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly unexpec...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Dec 15, 2019

    The Other Miraculous Pregnancy of Advent

    As a historian who has spent a career studying pregnancy and birth, I always look forward to Advent. During the weeks leading up to Chris...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 31, 2019

    Help! Talk Radio Ate the Presidency!

    In November 2016, my Facebook feed was filled with friends’ dreaded anticipation of Thanksgiving with extended family, and particularly w...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 23, 2019

    In Vitro Fertilization: From Science Fiction to Reality to History

    It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students a...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 21, 2019

    Women Breaking the Silence on Miscarriage

    I am glad to see so many women willing to break the silence on miscarriage. I am a historian, and I spent 15 years researching my forthco...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 7, 2019

    Is a Historian’s Library an Archive or a Living Thing?

    This week I purged my bookshelves. As a Ph.D. historian, it initially felt like a risky move — somewhere in between disowning my former s...
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    Journey Into Mothering with Historian Sarah Knott
    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Jul 23, 2019

    Journey Into Mothering with Historian Sarah Knott

    In Mother Is a Verb, Sarah Knott takes her reader on a historian’s journey into motherhood. It is a sort of train travelogue, riding alon...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Jun 26, 2019

    A Tale of Two Midwives across Four Centuries

    What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by n...
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