A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Titillating toes.
- Guns in the family.
- Gender roles, not Jell-O rolls.
- A history of pseudo-profanity.
- Desexing the Kinsey Institute.
- Make every class sex ed class.
- Power dressing: a feminist history.
- A 1925 version of “men are trash.”
- A world of food history goes digital.
- The origins of American space tourism.
- A brief history of presidential sex scandals.
- The lessons of a school shooting — in 1853.
- Imagining violence: the power of feminist fantasy.
- Searching for memory of the Gulags in Putin’s Russia.
- Troubling pop culture trend alert: the black lady therapist.
- Capturing photos of corporate office life in 1970s America.
- Madame C.J. Walker was not the first African American millionaire.