Introduction: midwifery, monstrosity, and motherhood -- Purity and productivity: perceiving virginity, conception, and pregnancy -- The evolution of virginity -- Conception and pregnancy -- The hidden history of contraception, abortion, and infanticide -- Contraception and abortion -- Infanticide -- Populating the Patria -- Monstrous births -- Obstetrics, gynecology, and birth -- Conclusion: change and constancy in Mexico's reproductive history -- Appendix I. Abortion cases, 1823-1884 -- Appendix II. Infanticide cases, 1823-1897.
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