A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Secrets of a brothel privy.
- Susan B. Anthony’s bad food.
- A woman on Mount Rushmore?
- The history of the “ideal” woman.
- Lena Dunham’s lesson for doctors.
- Why black disability history matters.
- Walking in Harriet Tubman’s footsteps.
- Key concepts and research in bioethics.
- Women’s Experiences of Trauma in WWI.
- Barbers and advertising in the 18th century.
- Opiates and 18th-century domestic distress.
- The strange 100-year history of daylight saving time.
- Oh my god, Becky, look at her 18th-century false rump.
- The woman who prevented an epidemic of birth defects.
- Echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in today’s immigration debate.
- Trans and non-binary people must be part of abortion conversations.