Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction 1
5. 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg 22
6. 2. “What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?” The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy 45
7. 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870–1900 69
8. 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery 94
9. 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad 119
10. 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson 143
11. 7. The Public Fetus in Franco’s Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images 171
12. 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States 193
13. 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising 225
14. 10. From “Anatomical Specimen” to “Almost Child”: Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France 243
15. 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display 265
16. 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept 289
17. Selected Bibliography 311
18. Notes on Contributors 329
19. Index 333