Contributors
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Rickie Solinger is a historian, writing and editing books about race, class and the politics of motherhood in the United States, including Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade (1992, 2000). Her latest books are Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (2005), and co-edited volumes, Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims (2008) and Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in America (2009). Solinger is also a curator, organizing exhibitions that have traveled to 140 academic and community galleries since 1992. Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute in New York is hosting “Picturing Policy: Reimagining Government in the New Deal,” 2010–2011. “Claiming Citizenship: African Americans and New Deal Photography” opened at the Brown v. Board of Education Historic Site in Topeka and will travel for five years.
Susanne M. Klausen is an associate professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. She researches the history of reproduction and fertility control in twentieth-century South Africa. She is the author of Race, Maternity, and the Politics of Birth Control in South Africa, 1910–39 (Palgrave, 2004) and has published work in numerous journals, including the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and the South African Historical Journal. Currently she is researching the regulation of reproductive sexuality in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Wendy Kline is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches courses on women’s history, health, and sexuality. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001). Her second monograph, Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010.
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is professor of history of health sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives (1998) and The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (2007), and coeditor of Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History (2007). [End Page 235]
Ziv Eisenberg is a doctoral candidate in history at Yale University (ziv.eisenberg@yale.edu). His fields of interest include the history of the United States in the twentieth century, the family, women’s health, modern medicine, and consumerism. His dissertation, “The Whole Nine Months: Women, Men, and the Making of Modern Pregnancy in America,” examines the roles played by medicine, consumer culture, advocacy groups, popular media, and the law in shaping cultural attitudes toward pregnancy and prenatal care practices.
Jennifer Nelson is associate professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Redlands in Redlands, California. Her first book, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (NYU Press, 2003), documented the impact of women of color activism on the feminist abortion rights movement of the 1970s. Her current research is on grassroots public health activism among women and men of color in the United States from the late 1930s until the present. In this new project she pays particular attention to how activists forged policies that addressed the socioeconomics of good health.
Tracy A. Weitz, PhD, MPA, is the Director of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, both at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her current research focuses on innovative strategies to expand abortion provision in the United States. Included in her research portfolio is a demonstration project of the use of nurse practitioners, midwives, and physician assistants as providers of early abortion care in California, a study of women’s emotions related to abortion, and a strategic initiative to secure access to and provision of later abortion.
Jacqueline H. Wolf is professor of the history of medicine and chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University. She specializes in the history of women’s and...
