A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Cassia Roth is assistant professor of history and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. Prior to that, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil was just published with Stanford University Press. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Slavery & Abolition, and História, Ciência, Saúde – Manguinhos, and her article “From Free Womb to Criminalized Woman: Fertility Control in Brazilian Slavery and Freedom,” won the 2018 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Article Prize. She has taught Latin American and gender history at the University of Georgia, UCLA, Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the University of Edinburgh. She is also a contributing writer and editor with the medical and gender history blog Nursing Clio. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Historical Association, the Coordinating Council for Women in History, and the European Union.