CPS Roundtable: Reproductive Justice in History

April 21, 2023
Fourteenth-century fresco depicting Joseph's first dream. A pregnant Mary sits on a bench with a crown on her head while Joseph sits at her side in reverence.
Joseph's first dream as described in Matthew 1:20-21. Fresco, c. 1360. Public Domain
Event Date & Time
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Event Location
Heller 1210

271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

A roundtable featuring the following speakers:

Jennifer Awes-Freeman
(Art History, University of Minnesota)
"Medieval Birthing Girdles and Modern Maternal Mortality"

Jessica Gordon-Roth
(Philosophy, University of Minnesota)
"Locke on Midwifery and Childbirth: A Sexist Epistemology?"

Anne Good
(Curator, University of Minnesota Libraries)
"Considering Reproduction at the Cape of Good Hope, ca. 1700"

Hannah Smith
(History, University of Minnesota)
"Deviant Behaviors in Early Modern Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery"

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