Wendy Kline
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
360c McMicken Hall
513-556-1198
wendy.kline@uc.edu
Professional Summary
Professor Kline has just completed her second book, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in fall 2010. It is tentatively titled Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave. She has recently published articles in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and the Journal of Women's History (forthcoming), 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 forthcoming 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 the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. She has two children, both of whom carries on their German heritage by attending the Fairview German Language School in Clifton.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1998.
Books
Kline, Wendy (2001). Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Kline, Wendy (2010). (In Press). Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Book Chapters
Kline, Wendy (In Press). "Eugenics in the United States". Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine (Eds.),
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Kline, Wendy (2008). "The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women's Health and Second Wave Feminism". Stephanie Gilmore (Eds.),
Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second Wave Feminism in the United States. Champagn-Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Kline, Wendy (2006). "A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930s". Sue Currell and Christina Cogdell (Eds.),
Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Kline, Wendy (2008). Birth Control Debates. Amy Lind (Eds.),
Battleground: Women and Gender. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
Courses Taught
American Women’s History to 1890.
U.S. Women’s History 1890 to the Present.
History of Sexuality.
Women’s Health in America.
Making Sense of the Sixties.
Social Movements of the Twentieth Century.
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