My forthcoming book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, will be published with Simon & Schuster next year. The manuscript examines confinement's role in fostering and hindering epidemics. The manuscript traces the long history of viral outbreaks under conditions of social confinement—the plantation system, colonial camps, imprisonment, quarantine, the factory—revealing how these enclosed spaces fuel epidemics. Here’s the book cover.
Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Alice Spawls (co-editor of the London Review of Books) and I have co-edited a volume, After Sex, a book about reproductive freedom. The text provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women.
If you can, please pre-order A History of the World in Six Plagues and After Sex.