Dear Readers, Can you believe Nursing Clio will be celebrating its third birthday this year? It seems like just yesterday we […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-7 vintage suffrage valentines.
-15 old-fashioned compliments.
-Jewish life in the American city.
-The mysterious “Zep” love potion.
-The unknown history of Latino lynchings.
-The town destroyed to stop racial mixing.
Clio Goes to the Movies: “Selma” in History
Ava DuVernay’s Selma has sparked a robust discussion about the civil rights movement, memory, and the filmmaker’s role in creating “accurate” and […]
Moralizing Motherhood: America’s Long History of the Breastfeeding Police
By Ginny Engholm
A recent Facebook post by our own Jacqueline Antonovich weighed in on one of the most contentious issues in the mommy wars — breastfeeding. She was responding to another Facebook post by a well-known feminist blogger who goes by the name The Feminist Breeder. Antonovich wrote, “I finally had to unfollow a page about feminism and birth/parenting. I’m all for breastfeeding, but if you are going to say you are not trying to judge, but you just ‘don’t get’ women who bottle feed, then you are too wrapped up in your liberal, upper-class, white world to understand how economics, culture, body type, cancer, and/or sexual trauma can make breastfeeding difficult or impossible. So tired of sanctimonious mommies.”
Sunday Morning Medicine
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-The complex history of pain.
-Beauty spots and French Pox.
-AIDS and African American History.
-President Ford and the tamale incident.
-The history behind General Tso and his chicken.
Vagina Dialogues
By Elizabeth Reis
Students at Mt. Holyoke College are protesting the annual performance of Eve Ensler’s feminist classic, The Vagina Monologues. Their gripe with the play is that by focusing on vaginas, the play perpetuates “vagina essentialism,” suggesting that ALL women have vaginas and that ALL people with vaginas are women. Transgender and intersex people have taught us that this seemingly simple “truth” is actually not true. There are women who have penises and there are men who have vaginas. Not to mention women born without vaginas! Hence, these Mt. Holyoke critics imply, the play contributes to the erasure of difference by presenting a “narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman,” and shouldn’t be produced on college campuses.
Crimes Never Committed: Thoughts on The Imitation Game
Spoiler Alert: This isn’t exactly a movie review (if you’d like one, I recommend Alex von Tunzelmann’s review in The […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
By Jacqueline Antonovich
-Trans* history in Early America.
-Could this virus be good for you?
-History’s worst diet: the tapeworm.
-The controversial history of skim milk.
-The stalking of an American President.
-Capitalism plus dope equals genocide.
-Recreating ancient Pompeii with legos.