Wendy Kline

Professor
360c McMicken Hall
513-556-1198
wendy.kline@uc.edu

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Education

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1998.

Professional Summary

Professor Kline is the author of two books: Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction and Women's Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago, 2010), and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).  She has recently published articles in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and the Journal of Women's History, and essays in Feminist Coalitions, Major Problems in American Women's History, and Popular Eugenics.  She also has a chapter on the history of eugenics in America with Oxford University Press.
Professor Kline received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998, working under the direction of Karen Halttunen. Before joining the faculty at UC in 2000, Kline lived in Germany and taught the history of sexuality at the University of Munich. Kline is also a professional violinist and a member of two professional orchestras: The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and the Clermont Philharmonic.

Positions & Work Experience

2011-, Professor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, .

2005-2011, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, .

2000-2005, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, .

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Bodies of Evidence: Activists, Patients, and the FDA Regulation of Depo Provera,” in The Journal of Women’s History vol 22 issue 3 (September 2010).

“’Please Include This in Your Book:’ Readers Respond to Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Spring 2005)

Books

Kline, Wendy. Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.

Kline, Wendy. Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

Book Chapters

Kline, Wendy. "Eugenics in the United States", " The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Kline, Wendy. "The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women's Health and Second Wave Feminism", " Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second Wave Feminism in the United States, edited by Stephanie Gilmore. Champagn-Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Kline, Wendy. "A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930s", " Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s, edited by Sue Currell and Christina Cogdell. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006.

Kline, Wendy. "Birth Control Debates, " Battleground: Women and Gender, edited by Amy Lind. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2008.

“Historical Roots in Women’s Health,” coauthored with Heather Prescott, in Mary V. Spiers, Pamela A. Geller and Jacqueline D. Kloss, eds., Women’s Health Psychology (Wiley, 2013).
 

“Women Readers and the Feminist Health Movement in the 1970s and 1980s.”  Major Problems in American Women’s History, 4th ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).

Reviews

Peter C. Engelman, A History of the Birth Control Movement in America, in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, forthcoming.

Elaine May, America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation, in the American Historical Review, vol. 117 no 1, February 2012.

Lewis Gould, Helen Taft: Our Musical First Lady, in the Historian, vol. 73 no. 4, Winter 2011.

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Prescribed Norms: Women and Health in Canada and the U.S. since 1800, in Isis, vol. 102, no. 3, September, 2011.

 “The Power of Activism.” Susan Bell, DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics, in the Women’s Review of Books, vol 27 no. 6, November 2010.

Jonathan Peter Spiro, Defending the Mater Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant, in the Journal of American History, vol. 96 no. 4, March 2010.

Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner, The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution in Isis, vol 100 no. 4, December 2009.

Laura Lovett, Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the U.S., 1890-1938 in the Journal of Social History, June 2009.

Mark Largent, Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States published in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2008 63(4):537-539

Elizabeth Watkins, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 29 (2007).

Judith A. Houck,  Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America in Isis, December 2006.

Rebecca Kukla, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers’ Bodies in the Journal of the American Medical Association, October 2006.

Christina Cogdell, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s in the Journal of Social History, September, 2006.

Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, in the American Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2006.

Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America in the Bulletin of History of Medicine, Vol. 80, issue 3, Spring 2006.

Helen Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America, in Ohio History, Vol 114, Winter-Spring 2005.

Christine Rosen, Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, in The Journal of American History,Vol 92 no. 1, June 2005, 265.

Edwin Black, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, in Journal of the American Medical Association, in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 292, No. 7, 868-69.

Sandra Morgen, Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990, in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Winter, 2003.

Judith Ezekiel, Feminism in the Heartland, in Ohio Valley History, Vol. 3 No. 2, Summer, 2003.

Mary Klages, Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America, H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, September, 2001.

"Risk and Responsibility: The Brave New World of Reproductive Medicine," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 43 (2), 2013

In Press

“Eugenics,” in Hugh Slotten, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology (Oxford University Press, in press).

“Health, Ethnicity, Eugenics, and Genetics,” in Ronald H. Bayor, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (Oxford University Press, in press).

Invited Presentations

Kline, Wendy (09/14/2012). “Communicating a New Consciousness: Home Birth in Modern America". Social Science Research Seminar, Wake Forest University.

Kline, Wendy (07/23/2012). "Eugenic Legacies, Eugenic Reparations: California's Sterilization Secret". Tarrytown House Estate and Conference Center, Tarrytown, NY.

Kline, Wendy (12/05/2011). Coming Home: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth. Cambridge University, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, England.

Kline, Wendy (11/11/2011). Bodies of Evidence: Eugenics and the Regulation of Depo-Provera. Uppsala University Department of the History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala, Sweden.

Kline, Wendy (02/21/2011). Coming Home: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth. Yale University Department of History of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

Kline, Wendy (09/25/2008). “Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: Birth Control and the Women’s Health Movement,” annual Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture, Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University, September 25, 2008.. .

Kline, Wendy (11/20/2008). “Building a Better Race: The Positive Eugenics Movement, 1930-1960,” Centre for American Studies, The University of Western Ontario, November 20, 2008.. .

(05/17/2008). “Surveying the Women’s Health Movement: Technology, Research, and Reading Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Frank MacKinnon Lecture and keynote address, Women, History, and Technology conference, Canadian Committee on Women’s History, University of Prince Edward Island, May 16-17, 2008.. .

Kline, Wendy (11/05/2007). “Regulating Birth Control: The Depo Provera Controversy.” Seminar paper for the Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2007. .

Kline, Wendy (09/12/2007). “Bodies of Evidence: Activists, Patients, and the FDA Regulation of Depo Provera.” Seminar paper for the Department of the Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, September 12, 2007.. .

Kline, Wendy (12/07/2005). “Re-examining the Pelvic: Medical Education and the Female Body.” University of Michigan, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program Seminar Series, Ann Arbor, MI, December 7, 2005.. .

Kline, Wendy (11/07/2005). “The Contraceptive Double Standard: Debating Depo Provera in the 1970s,” and “Recent Trends in the History of Women’s Health,” University of Iowa Global Health Studies Program, Iowa City, IA Nov. 7-8, 2005.. .

Kline, Wendy (10/21/2005). “Taking Their Bodies Back: A History of the Women’s Health Movement,” invited talk at the Women’s Resource Center, California State University, Sacramento, October 21, 2005.. .

Kline, Wendy (10/22/2005). “A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930s,” at “From Eugenics to Designer Babies: Engineering the California Dream,” a major one-day symposium at California State University Sacramento, October 22, 2005. .

Kline, Wendy (04/18/2005). “Calling the Shots: Women Speak Out against Depo-Provera.” Invited speaker, Spring Colloquia Series, History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, April 18, 2005.. .

Kline, Wendy (03/03/2005). “Making Marriage Modern.” Guest speaker, Race and Membership workshop run by Facing History and Ourselves, Boston, MA, March 3-4 2005.. .

Kline, Wendy (07/18/2004). “Using Eugenics in the Classroom: The Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt.” Guest speaker, Race and Membership workshop run by Facing History and Ourselves, Bard College, July 18-22, 2004.. .

Kline, Wendy (04/22/2003). Marriage, Family, and Eugenics in the Twentieth Century. Honorary presentation, Bluegrass Symposium, University of Kentucky, April 22, 2003.. .

Lectures

Kline, Wendy (05/02/2012). Reexamining the Pelvice: Women's Health from a Recent Historical Perspective. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

Kline, Wendy (05/01/2012). Reexamining the Pelvice: Women's Health from a Recent Historical Perspective. University of Iowa Library, Iowa City, Iowa.

Kline, Wendy (03/13/2012). Bodies of Knowledge: Women's Health from a Recent Historical Perspective. Xavier University auditorium, Cincinnati, OH.

Paper Presentations

Kline, Wendy. The Bowland Bust and the Criminalization of Traditional Midwifery in California. American Association for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 05/27/2012.

Kline, Wendy. Birth in Transition: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth. European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. 09/02/2011.

Kline, Wendy. Better Birthing: Consciousness-Raising on the Delivery Table. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 06/11/2011.

Kline, Wendy. “Choices in Childbirth: A Modern Midwife’s Tale.” Paper presented at Perinatal: A Symposium on Birth Practics and Reproductive Rights, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 7, 2009.. .

Kline, Wendy. . “Coming Home: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, April 29, 2011.. 2011.

Kline, Wendy. “Beyond Abortion: Women’s Health Activism in Chicago after Roe.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of the History of Medicine, Cleveland, OH , April 23-26 2009.. . 2009.

Kline, Wendy. “’Re-examining the Pelvic’”: Women Medical Students and the Pelvic Instruction Controversy.” Paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, June 2008.. . 2008.

Kline, Wendy. “Bodies of Evidence: Activists, Patients, and the FDA Regulation of Depo Provera.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Washington, D.C., November 2007.. . 2007.

Kline, Wendy. “Who Calls the Shots? Contraceptive Technology and Women’s Health.” Featured Speaker, Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) conference, Little Rock, AK, October 4, 2007.. . 2007.

Kline, Wendy. “Childbirth Made Difficult: Raising Consciousness on the Delivery Table.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Montreal, Canada, May 6, 2007.. . 2007.

Kline, Wendy. “Childbirth Made Difficult: Raising Consciousness on the Delivery Table.” Paper presented at the History of Women’s Health Conference, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, April 11, 2007.. . 2007.

Kline, Wendy. “The Contraceptive Double Standard”: Debating Depo-Provera in the 1970s.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 7-10, 2006.. . 2006.

Kline, Wendy. “The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women’s Health and Second-Wave Feminism.” Paper presented at the tenth anniversary conference of the Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Women’s Health Fellows, Washington, D.C., March 2-3, 2006. . . 2006.

Kline, Wendy. “Reexamining the Pelvic: The Doctor Patient Relationship and the Pelvic Instruction Controversy of the 1970s.” Paper presented at the European Association for the History of Medicine, Paris, France, September 7-10, 2005.. . 2005.

Kline, Wendy. “Readers, Feminism, and Women’s Health.” Paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Claremont, CA, June 2-5, 2005.. . 2005.

Kline, Wendy. “Calling the Shots: Women Speak Out against Depo-Provera.” Paper presented at the International conference on “Reproductive Disruptions: Childlessness, Adoption, and Other Reproductive Complexities,” Ann Arbor, MI, May 19-22, 2005.. . 2005.

Kline, Wendy. “Reexamining the Pelvic.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, April 7-10, 2005.. . 2005.

Kline, Wendy. “’Please Include This in Your Book:’ Readers Respond to Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Association for Women Historians, Berkeley, CA, June 6-8, 2003.. . 2003.

Kline, Wendy. “Incorporating Women and Gender in the History of Medicine.” Paper presented at teaching roundtable, meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1-3, 2003.. . 2003.

Kline, Wendy. “The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Health, Sexuality, and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.” Paper presented at the meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, April 25-28, 2002.. . 2002.

Kline, Wendy. “Making Marriage Modern: Eugenics and the Family.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Ohio Academy of History, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 20, 2002.. . 2002.

Events Organized

Lecture. Kluchin, "Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in Modern America" (05/30/2012), Taft House, University of Cincinnati.

Honors & Awards

Charles Phelps Taft Center Fellowship, 2012-2013.

Margaret Storrs Grierson Travel-to-Collections Grant, Smith College, 2012-2013.

Charles Phelps Taft Domestic Conference Travel Grant, 2012.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Fellowship in the History of Medicine, ACOG, 2010-2011.

Charles Phelps Taft Summer Research Fellowship, 2011.

Charles Phelps Taft Faculty Release Fellowship, 2011.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 2011.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 2011.

University Research Council Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 2010.

Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, Harvard University, 2010.

Charles Phelps Taft Domestic Conference Travel Grant, 2011.

Taft Competitive Lecture Fund, 2012.

Taft Competitive Lecture Fund, 2011.

Charles Phelps Taft International Conference Travel Grant, 2011.

Charles Phelps Taft International Conference Travel Grant, 2010.

Charles Phelps Taft Travel for Research Travel Grant, 2010.

Charles Phelps Taft Publication costs, 2009.

Charles Phelps Taft Domestic Conference Travel Grant, 2009.

Charles Phelps Taft Faculty Release Fellowship, 2008.

Friends of Women's Studies Travel Grant, 2008.

Charles Phelps Taft Domestic Conference Travel Grant, 2008.

Charles Phelps Taft Domestic Conference Travel Grant, 2007.

Charles Phelps Taft Domestic Conference Travel Grant, 2006.

Charles Phelps Taft International Conference Travel Grant, 2007.

Charles Phelps Taft International Conference Travel Grant, 2006.

Charles Phelps Taft International Conference Travel Grant, 2005.

Charles Phelps Taft Center Fellowship, 2005-2006.

Francis A. Countway Library Fellowship in the History of Medicine, Harvard University, 2004-2005.

Margaret Storrs Grierson Travel-to-Collections Grant, Smith College, 2003.

Margaret Storrs Grierson Scholar in Residence Fellowship, Smith College, 2004-2005.

University Research Council Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 2004.

Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, Harvard University, 2003.

Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, Harvard University, 2001.

Charles Phelps Taft Summer Research Fellowship, 2001.

University Research Council Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 2002.

Research Training Grant, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2001.

Charles Phelps Taft Cost Sharing Grant, 2003.

Service

Committee Chair, Islamic World Search Committee, 01/01/2012 to 03/15/2012.

Program Director, Undergraduate Studies, 06/15/2009 to 06/15/2012.

Committee Member, Undergraduate Council, 06/15/2009 to 06/15/2012.

Committee Member, A&S RPT, 2008 to 2010.

Committee Member, University Research Council, 2008 to 2009.

Committee Member, Taft Executive Committee, 2006 to 2009.

Committee Member, Taft Center Fellows Committee, 2009 to 2011.

Committee Member, Taft Faculty Fellowships Committee, 2006 to 2009.

Committee Member, NEH Review Committee, 2011.

Committee Member, Latin America Search Committee, 2009.

Committee Member, Executive Committee, 2009 to 2012.

Committee Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 2008 to 2009.

Committee Member, American Assocation for the History of Medicine Executive Council, 2010 to 2013.

Committee Member, Historical Subcommittee of the California Eugenic Sterilization Action Group, 2012.

Committee Member, American Assocation for the History of Medicine Welch Prize Committee, 2004 to 2005.

Committee Member, American Assocation for the History of Medicine Shryock Prize Committee, 2011 to 2012.

Consultant, Facing History and Ourselves 2003 to 2013.

Consultant, Dittrick Medical History Center, Percy Skuy Collection on the History of Contraception, Case Western Reserve University 2005 to 2012.

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

2012 Interviewed on “The Ethical Doctor,” WBAI, 99.5 FM, New York, live broadcast, January 26, 2012..

2011 “Game Changers: Our Bodies, Ourselves,” The Current, CBC radio, live broadcast, October 24, 2011..

2008 “Prelude to the Human Genome Project,” Radio show “Action Speaks,” guest panelist, live broadcast on NPR, Providence, RI, October 1, 2008..

2008 Interviewed live on CBC radio one “maritime noon” regarding the delivery of the Frank MacKinnon lecture at the University of Prince Edward Island, May 16, 2008..

2007 Interviewed as historical expert for CBS Sunday Morning opening segment on prenatal genetic testing, October 21, 2007..

Courses Taught

American Women’s History to 1890.

U.S. Women’s History 1890 to the Present.

15-HIST-680 SEXUALITY IN AMER History of Sexuality.
I redeveloped my lecture class, history of sexuality, starting with the present controversy regarding sex education, and working backwards. Students researched a particular locale in which the school district is currently debating how and whether to teach sex education, and examined the participants and agendas of those involved. We then jumped back to the nineteenth century to trace the evolution of some of those controversies over sex education. This strategy captured student attention from the start and led to a high amount of student participation and engagement.

Women’s Health in America.

Making Sense of the Sixties.

Social Movements of the Twentieth Century.

15-HIST-398H HEALTH, SEX, BIRTH .
I integrated historic and contemporary readings on racial disparities in birth outcomes to address the problem of why Hamilton County and the city of Cincinnati have some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. I brought in community leaders, and took students to local hospitals and community service locations to have them learn more about the particular dynamics of birth outcomes in our community. Students then presented research (posters, pamphlets, powerpoint lectures, etc). to be distributed to the community via the Women and Infant Vitality Network.

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