A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Pandemic windows.
- The making of a male midwife.
- Who was the woman in white?
- The doughnut heroines of wartime.
- A short history of queer love letters.
- Sex, swimming, and Chicago’s racial divide.
- The speculum finally gets a modern redesign.
- What can cemeteries teach us about history?
- The antebellum market for enslaved wet nurses.
- How an English teacher changed Beatles history.
- Colorado’s other marijuana first happened in 1937.
- How a pair of orange scissors made design history.
- The first victim of Stockholm Syndrome tells her story.
- Using science and history to unlock the secrets of bread.
- Colonial postcards and women as props for war-making.
- The 1910s magazine that started a feminist movement in Japan.
- For many women, the nearest abortion provider is hundreds of miles away.