A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A brief history of chairs.
- Insomnia and birth control.
- Bad girls before the 1960s.
- The Gawker of Early America.
- Dog cakes and drug doctoring.
- What if women never won the vote?
- A farewell to abstinence and fidelity?
- The slave trade roots of private prisons.
- When “the talk” is given in sign language.
- The difficulty of getting a rape kit in Texas.
- The bloody history of the true crime genre.
- The insidious symbolism of boy and girl bikes.
- Is there a link between racism and heart disease?
- Germany finally apologizes for its other genocide.
- Could someone please design a better speculum?