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 …