Law, Medicine, Women’s Authority, and the History of Troubled Births: Review of Proving Pregnancy
With Roe v Wade upended, the balance of power and authority among lawmakers, medical practitioners, and pregnant and birthing people is...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Mar 2
Pregnancy Test: An Interview with Karen Weingarten
Lara: How did you get interested in researching the history and culture of the pregnancy test? Karen: I’ve been writing about the...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Sep 6, 2022
Menstrual Advocacy Is Flowing and Flowering
A review of Periods Gone Public and Menstruation Matters When I was researching my first book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Aug 30, 2022
Free menstrual products are critical to dignity and empowerment
History shows that access to good menstrual management can be key to excelling in a modern world... Read the rest at the Washington Post
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Jun 30, 2022
Lara Freidenfelds: With Roe gone, women will die
As a contributor to CNN.com, I gave my perspective as a historian on the Dobbs decision. Abortion, miscarriage and pre-term birth are...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- May 23, 2022
When the Constitution was drafted, abortion was a choice left to women
In his draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. repeatedly emphasizes that the Constitution did not...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Apr 10, 2022
Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper
Sociologist Monica Casper, who has written previously on fetal surgery, has published a new book called Babylost: Racism, Survival, and...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Apr 10, 2022
The Family Roe and the Messy Reality of the Abortion “Jane Roe” Didn’t Get
I almost didn’t read The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager. When I saw the premise – a biography of Norma McCorvey, the...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Jan 8, 2022
BOOK REVIEW: Ferber, Marks & Mackie, IVF and Assisted Reproduction
This is a pre-publication draft of a book review appearing in Technology and Culture, v. 63, n. 1, 2022 Most scholars would find the...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Dec 19, 2021
The Other Miraculous Pregnancy of Advent
I wrote about today's gospel reading in an essay from 2019: "As a historian who has spent a career studying pregnancy and birth, I always...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Dec 16, 2021
What Does It mean to Have a “Real Choice” About Abortion?
What does it mean to have a “real choice” about abortion? I am writing this book review as the Supreme Court hears arguments over...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Sep 30, 2021
When Abortion Was a Necessary Sin
Anyone tempted to make facile arguments about abortion politics, on either side of the aisle, needs to read John Christopoulos’s new...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Sep 12, 2021
Hagley Museum and Library Interview
The Hagley Museum and Archives were a key research source for The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy. Gregory Hagreaves interviewed me about...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Aug 18, 2021
Liberal Christians in the Making of Sex Education
In the 1960s conservative Christian leaders like Billy James Hargis and his “Christian Crusade” defined the culture wars over sex...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Apr 7, 2021
The problem with 'bereavement' leave after pregnancy loss
Last month New Zealand broke new ground with a national policy of "Bereavement Leave" following miscarriage. This is a welcome...
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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...
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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...
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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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