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How reproductive injustice in early modern Europe could mirror that of today
- February 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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"There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe," states a recent article in the Journal of Modern History. The work examines several facets of "reproductive unfreedom" in the early modern period: namely, single motherhood, foundling hospitals, and wet nursing.
Originally published at Phys.org