Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Mothers, Midwives, and Mysteries
3: Abortions, Witches, and Catholics: Reproduction and Revolution
4: 'Is not your Lordship with child too?': Pregnant Fathers and Fathers of Science
5: Imagining Mothers
6: Breeding Scottish Obstetrics in Doctor Smellie's London
7: Revolutionary Bodies in the Britain of George III
8: Sex, Science, and Race
9: The State Takes Charge: Conceived, Consummated, and Counted
10: Epilogue

Reviews

Cody's most important achievement is to show that birth is a tool for historical analysis, a tool which brings to light struggles over issues as key as gender relations, national identity, racism and the growth of the modern state. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Book Prize Committee Cody straddles some of the most significant and distinctive themes of the long eighteenth century ... [she] teases out a novel interpretation of a well-rehearsed medical development, and presents it in a way which cannot help but have impact on the reader. Alysa Levene, Reviews in History