The ways in which women’s choices, or lack of them, are discussed by governments, researchers, and wider society offer a fairly glaring insight into why fertility rates continue to fall, writes Kat Br ...

Over seven months in the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013, nine women who had been born without wombs received uterine transplants from living donors; mostly, their mothers. The transplants took ...

The decision not to have children has always sparked heated debates, and when it comes to women, the scrutiny intensifies. In many societies, motherhood is seen as a defining part of womanhood, so ...

Cat Bohannon, author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, says sexism is a massive set of rules all cultures have to control female reproduction. For Bohannon, sex ...

The reproductive justice movement — led by Black women — has long emphasized the intersection of reproductive rights, racial inequality and economic justice. Grounded in a framework that acknowledges ...

Inflammation is a key modulator of physiologic processes and plays a pivotal role in responses to injury and infection and can be acute or chronic, local and/or systemic, and beneficial or detrimental ...

List of illustrations -- Note on sources -- Introduction -- 1: Some could suckle over their shoulder: male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology -- 2: Number of women doeth ...