A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Lost and found report cards.
- Probably the most disturbing feminine hygiene ad ever (and as gender historians, we’ve seen many).
- Did you celebrate Independence Day? These suffragettes did not.
- 20th century author Anaïs Nin insisted on poetry in her erotic fiction.
- Depression-era “Desperation Pies.”
- A promising new turn in the racial history of The Daughters of the American Revolution?
- The sexy history of canoes.
- Sexual satisfaction sold over the counter.
- The pork industry sells sexism.
- Is breast cancer linked to cup size?
- Abraham Lincoln impeached?