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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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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...
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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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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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