Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Breeding” a “Little Stranger”: Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Later Georgian England

Chapter 3 “Bound to Be a Troublesome Time”: Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy, Parturition, and Pain, c. 1867–1930

Chapter 4 Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence During the Irish Revolution

Chapter 5 Audible Birth, Listening Women: Storytelling the Labouring Body on Mumsnet

Chapter 7 “Pregnant Women Gaze at the Precious Thing Their Souls Are Set On”: Perceptions of the Pregnant Body in Early Modern Literature

Chapter 8 Babies Without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction

Chapter 9 The Birth of the Pregnant Patient-Consumer? Payment, Paternalism, and Maternity Hospitals in Early-Twentieth-Century England

Chapter 10 “Closer Together”: Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain