1. 'Every body has its own feminism': Introducing Transcending Borders -- 2. Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan -- 3. Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives -- 4. 'Impossible to get to know these secret means' - Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East Africa' -- 5. A 'grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given': Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates about Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar -- 6. Troubled Women: Abortion and Psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s -- 7. 'It is not your personal concern': Challenging Expertise in the Campaign to Legalize Abortion in France -- 8. Feminism, Foetocentrism and the Politics of Abortion Choice in 1970s Australia -- 9. We're All Feminists Now: How to Pass an Anti-Abortion Policy in Australia -- 10. A Provider's Right to Choose: A Legal History -- 11. Abortion Politics in a State in Transition: Contesting South Africa's 'Choice Act' -- 12. Quiet Contestations of Irish Abortion Law: Abortion Politics in Flux? -- 13. The Landscape of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982-2010 -- 14. Settler Colonialism, Native American Motherhood, and the Politics of Terminating Pregnancies -- 15. Revelation and Secrecy: Women's Social Networks and the Contraception-Abortion Process in Cameroon -- 16. The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling?: Examining Threats to Women's Health -- 17. True Threats: Wanted Posters, Stalking, and the First Amendment.