Wendy Kline
Wendy Kline is an associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches courses on women’s history, health, medicine, and sexuality. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001). Her second monograph, Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010. Her article, “’Please Include This in Your Book:’ Readers Respond to Our Bodies, Ourselves,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Spring 2005) was reprinted in Major Problems in American Women’s History in 2007. Her current research focuses on the recent history of childbirth in the U.S. She received a B.A. from Smith College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. She has been a member of the AAHM since 2002. Kline is also a professional violinist who performs with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and the Clermont Philharmonic.