A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 2,400-year-old life advice.
- “Fishwife” was supposed to be an insult.
- Sexual violence against children in the 1960s.
- A history of subtle sexism in home technology.
- Traumatic births take toll on health workers too.
- Documenting leather, S&M, and fetishism history.
- As Holocaust survivors age, their needs intensify.
- The abandoned settlements inside National Parks.
- The diseases you only get if you believe in them.
- Before the Stonewall uprising, there was the “Sip-In.”
- A frustrating search for the “truth” about decapitation.
- From theater to therapy to Twitter: A history of gaslighting.
- The strange way people looked at food in the 16th century.
- The entire world has just two weeks to switch polio vaccines.
- Chevy’s misguided 1940 attempt to appeal to “fair and weak” women.