We are quickly approaching the 1918 centennial, commemorating the end of the First World War, with ceremonies and events being […]
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We are quickly approaching the 1918 centennial, commemorating the end of the First World War, with ceremonies and events being […]
“Mommy instincts:” that’s what Jenny McCarthy called them.1 You know, those innate feelings you get about your kids when they’re […]
At present in Ireland, a Domestic Violence Bill is rumbling its way through the Irish parliament, a welcome albeit overdue […]
In December 1943 Colonel Derrick Vail, ophthalmologist and consultant to the Army Medical Department in Europe, wrote in a memo: […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Hookworm is back. Can microbes speak? The Nazi sites […]
Several articles from reputable sources such as NPR and The Guardian have recently focused on the millennial generation’s supposed obsession […]
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sharrona Pearl about her new book, Face/On: Transplants and the Ethics of […]
On October 20, 2014, Renée Zellweger attended the Elle Women in Hollywood event, her first appearance in the public eye […]
Once a historical mind starts thinking about the ways sex intersects with the histories of medicine, it’s almost more difficult […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of women and pants. Are you descended […]