A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The maladies of midwives.
- Historical advice on breastfeeding.
- A medical history of the Olympics.
- Women and the history of capitalism.
- Nabisco’s X-rated toy scandal of 1971.
- Is this the city where HIV first emerged?
- The 1880 police raid of a cross-dressing ball.
- The strange history of the pocket Constitution.
- The woman who still receives a Civil War pension.
- The Civil War and left-handed penmanship contests.
- How racism kept the fastest swim stroke out of the pool.
- Could women be trusted with their own pregnancy tests?
- Some Venezuelan women opt for sterilization amid economic crisis.
- How a dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible.