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In this episode, we are joined by historian, author, and scholar, Donna J. Drucker. We spoke with Donna about her most recent book, Fertility Technology.

Donna is the assistant director of Scholarship and Research Development at the Columbia University School of Nursing. She holds a master in library science degree and PhD in history from Indiana University. She is the author of numerous articles, book reviews, and blog posts, along with four books: The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity (Springer, 2014), Contraception: A Concise History (MIT Press, 2020), andFertility Technology (MIT Press, 2023). She is at work on a new manuscript on the global history of abortion from the 1860s through the present titled Unwanted, under contract with Reaktion Books.