Announcements

We are happy to announce that a new team of editors at SUNY Binghamton will be taking over the Journal of Women's History in July 2010. They are Jean Quataert and Leigh Ann Wheeler, with Elisa Camiscioli as Book Review Editor and Benita Roth as Associate Editor. Please join us in welcoming them! There are plans in the works for a "meet the new editors" event at the American Historical Association annual meeting in San Diego in January 2010. For more information please contact Eileen Boris: boris@femst.ucsb.edu.

We are pleased to announce a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Women's History edited by Leslie J. Reagan, which will examine issues of "Reproduction, Sex, and Power. Issue 22.3, to be published in the autumn of 2010, will feature articles on abortion and sterilization in apartheid South Africa; prenatal Psychology in early-twentieth-century America; white supremacy and the surveillance of African American sexual behavior in the civil rights era; U.S. reproductive health activist Loretta Ross and the Women of Color Reproductive Freedom Movement in the 1980s; the role of gender and power in hearings about the use Depo Provera as a contraceptive in the United States; and Norplant and U.S. women's reproductive decision making in the late twentieth century. In addition, the issue will feature short essays on the use of film in the classroom to provoke discussions on reproduction, sex, and power and on discourses of "rare" in conversations about abortion; a Book Forum on Mary Fissell's Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England; and Book Review Essays on "Reproduction and Professional Institutions" and "Science, Medicine, Gender, and Defining the State."