A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Gendering Reefer Madness.
- The history of Multiple Sclerosis.
- 9 ancient (and terrible) abortion methods.
- When “womanless weddings” were trendy.
- 1950s advice for curing a cold includes jazz.
- The most loved and hated novel about WWI.
- Britain’s sonic therapy after the First World War.
- The connection between chlamydia and vaccines.
- Beyond Caitlyn Jenner lies a long struggle by transgender people.
- The history of how “Jane Fonda’s Workout” conquered the world.
- Women in Early America and the need for a National Women’s History Museum.
- The 400 arrests of Annie Parker: newspaper representations of a drunken woman.