Harvard WGS professor Sarah Richardson's next book, The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects, will be released by University of Chicago Press in October 2021. Richardson's new monograph charts the untold history of the idea that a woman’s health and behavior during pregnancy can have long-term effects on her descendants’ health and welfare.

We congratulate Professor Richardson on this forthcoming publication! Subscribe to our newsletter or keep an eye on our website for information about a fall 2021 event celebrating the release of her new book.

Reviews:

"A rich, elegantly argued analysis of the long history of scientific and popular thinking about 'maternal effects' on the fetuses that women gestate, full of well-articulated plunges into the archives of scientific texts and journals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an important, beautifully researched, and well-written book by an author whose prior works have literally changed their fields." -- Rayna Rapp, New York University