People Type: Gender and Women’s History

Thomason, Alex

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Interested in the histories of women, gender, and law in the early United States, my work examines the social and legal history of abortion and the politics of reproduction in the nineteenth century. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in …

Wathen, Emma

Biography Biography I study disability and reproduction in the twentieth-century United States, drawing from the fields of disability studies, U.S. history, history of medicine, and gender and sexuality studies. My dissertation explores parenting with a disability in the postwar United States amid the expansion of family policing systems and the growth of the disability rights …