Caroline Rusterholz is Professor of Social History at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg and Assistant Professor in History and International Politics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Before joining Fribourg, Caroline Rusterholz was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, Cambridge University. She was also a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck College and Cambridge. Her research focuses on the transnational history of sexual and reproductive health, population and family in the twentieth century.

  • Responsible Pleasure. Youth sexuality in postwar Britain (Oxford University Press, 2024).
  • Women’s Medicine, Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective (1920-70). (Manchester University Press, December 2020).
  • “Deux enfants c’est déjà pas mal”, Famille et fécondité en Suisse, 1955-1970. (Editions Antipodes, Lausanne, 2017).

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