Research

Books

Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America
University of Chicago
2024

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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


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“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)

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