Contents
Introduction: Historiography and History of Missing Palestinian Bodies
1“We Are Far More Advanced”: The Politics of Ill and Healthy Babies in Colonial Palestine
2“Making the Country Pay for Itself”: Health, Hunger, and Midwives
3“Children Are the Treasure and Property of the Nation”: Demography, Eugenics, and Mothercraft
4“Technically Illegal”: Birth Control in Religious, Colonial, and State Legal Traditions
5“I Did Not Want Children”: Birth Control in Discourse and Practice
6“The Art of Death in Life”: Palestinian Futurism and Reproduction after 1948