Abortion & the Reformation: Women, Witchcraft, & Repression
A Talk with Professor Mary Fissell
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 · 4 - 5:30 AM
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Human Context of Science and Technology presents:
Abortion & the Reformation: Women, Witchcraft, & Repression
Mary Fissell,
Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, with appointments in
the History of Science and the History Departments, Johns Hopkins
University
The Protestant and Catholic
Reformations of the sixteenth century prompted increased restrictions on
abortion. While we associate anti-abortion politics with the Catholic
Church today, Protestant reformers were eager to reform gender
relations, including abortion access. They created legislation that
criminalized abortion in new ways. At the same time, witchcraft
prosecutions sometimes linked abortion and sorcery.
Organized by the Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Co-sponsored
by American Studies; Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; History;
Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health; & the Dresher Center
for the Humanities