A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Man to man, 1954.
- The return of the utopians.
- The deaf body in public space.
- The stories Japanese clothes tell.
- Remember working-class feminism!
- The two sisters who poisoned Victorian Liverpool.
- Groaning cake – a traditional cake for new mothers.
- How mapmakers make mountains rise off the page.
- The 80s public access films produced by a UFO cult.
- How Nathaniel Hawthorne will save us from affluenza.
- Doctor concocts vaccines made of cat saliva and vodka.
- Fathers underrepresented in childhood obesity research.
- This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
- “To find a good wife, you have to ascertain she has a good head.”
- A lesbian artist who painted her circle of women in the early 20th century.
One Comment
Ah, another wonderful collection that consumes a couple of hours of my Sunday morning. Groaning cake – introduced me to a marvelous food blog. UFO Cult – oh, my. I had some dealings with the Unarians in the late 70’s – early 80’s. Some of my photos of the group showed up in the book “In Advance of the Landing” – long out of print. 5