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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Jun 3, 2019
This is Not a Culture of Life, This is a Culture of Un-Death
Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Apr 25, 2019
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (review)
It’s a rare academic history book that tempts me to binge-read. Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth is one of those...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Feb 7, 2019
Take Back the Net: Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Should I post a tough parenting question on Twitter, ask my Facebook community, or email a few friends who are most likely to have useful...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Nov 22, 2018
Give Thanks for Crossing Guards
“Wait on the curb, kids. Wait until I say you can cross.” Janice, the crossing guard at Fairmount Avenue, stepped briskly into traffic,...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Nov 16, 2018
Washington Post op-ed: What Michelle Obama’s Miscarriage Teaches Us About Modern Pregnancy
“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters...
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