Books
Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in AmericaUniversity of Chicago 2024 ![]() Audiobook produced by Tantor Media, 2025 Narrated by Ann Sprinkle | ![]() Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique University of Pennsylvania 2018 |
Articles and Chapters
![]() “The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (September 2025) | ![]() “Spitting on My Sources: Depression, DNA, and the Ambivalent Historian,”Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (Fall 2022) |
![]() “A Women’s Health Issue?: Framing Post-Abortion Syndrome in the 1980s,” Gender and History (October 2021) | ![]() “Gender, Sexuality, and the State,” co-authored with Jennifer Mittelstadt, in Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed., Ed. Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne Valk, Wiley Blackwell Press, 2021, 279-298. |
![]() “Weighing in about Weight: Advisory Power in the Bureau of Home Economics,” in Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times, Ed. Sharon Y. Nikols and Gwen Kay, University of Georgia, 2015. | ![]() “Fears of a Nanny State: Centering Gender and Family in the Political History of Regulation,” in Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century, Ed. Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason Williams, University of Chicago 2019. |
![]() “Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal,” Journal of American History (March 2011) |









