In this episode Siobhan talks with Felicity Turner, Associate Professor of History and Honors Program Coordinator at Georgia Southern University about her book Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century United States (UNC Press, 2022).
Her teaching and research interests include legal history; history of medicine; women, gender, and sexuality; law and society; and nineteenth-century US history. She is the author of “The Contradictions of Reform: Prosecuting Infant Murder in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.” published in Law and History Review in May 2021 and “Rights and the Ambiguities of the Law: Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South” published in the Journal of the Civil War Era in September 2014. The latter won the Coordinating Council for Women in History Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Award.
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EPISODE 30: Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell
EPISODE 29: Jonathan Gienapp
EPISODE 28: Warren Milteer, Jr.
EPISODE 27: Samantha Barbas
EPISODE 26: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
EPISODE 25: Nurfadzilah Yahaya
EPISODE 24: Joseph David
EPISODE 23: Charles Zelden
EPISODE 22: Philip Thai
EPISODE 21: Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente
EPISODE 20: Paul Finkelman
EPISODE 19: Robert Chase
EPISODE 18: Maddalena Marinari
EPISODE 17: Sophie White
EPISODE 16: Gregory Downs
EPISODE 15: Jane Hong
EPISODE 14: Kimberly Welch
EPISODE 13: William Hustwit
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