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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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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 (Admin)
    • Jul 19, 2018

    When Did We Get So Hormonal? An Interview with Randi Hutter Epstein

    Randi Hutter Epstein’s new book, Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, traces the development of...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 23, 2017

    Pornography on the Playground

    When I was 19, I had a summer job supervising a playground. It was a pretty lame job. It paid $5 an hour, and it was outside in the...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Sep 29, 2015

    Average-looking Married Couples Having Caring, Respectful Sex

    A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had to focus on the internet instead of...
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