In American media and pop culture, there is a constant barrage of fear and panic about teens, especially girls, and […]
![](https://i0.wp.com/nursingclio.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LIFE-sex-ed.jpg?fit=640%2C495&ssl=1)
In American media and pop culture, there is a constant barrage of fear and panic about teens, especially girls, and […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Wretched strumpets. Whiskey and slavery. Queering oral history. Death by […]
I am a historian of women, sexuality, medicine, and childhood. As I write my dissertation on the history of sex […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of Father’s Day. Ether as a recreational […]
When Barbara Brenner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, friends recommended that she read Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals. […]
We awoke to news of the carnage in Orlando. I had slept in — the first long, good night’s sleep […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The anatomical Venus. Feck! A history of swearing. The […]
Samantha Bee has been America’s leading late-night feminist comic for over a decade. As the longest serving correspondent in the […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Roots and the 1970s. The disorientation of illness. A history […]
An elderly man behind me in the checkout line at the grocery store asked me what I do. When I […]