The History of Talking About Miscarriage (2018)

Shannon Withycombe, a historian and the author of the forthcoming Lost: The Meanings of Miscarriage in 19th-Century America, spent years digging through archives, women’s personal writings, and doctors’ publications. The birth-control movement fought to emancipate women, not just from unwanted pregnancies, but from the burdens of miscarriage. Whereas stories that ran in women’s magazines once framed miscarriage as a medical matter, a blessing (nature doing its work), or a public-health issue, eventually, a different narrative emerged.

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