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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
In the 1970s, the invention of the pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists―the majority of whom were men―control over information about women’s bodies.
However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
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About the Author
Karen Weingarten is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. Her first book was Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940. She has co-edited special issues for South Atlantic Quarterly and Women’s Studies Quarterly and has written about reproduction, abortion, and disability in Hypatia, Literature and Medicine, College Literature, and Medical Humanities, among other places. She writes for Nursing Clio, a peer-reviewed blog on the history of medicine and gender.
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