A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- The first gay cookbook.
- The fast and the feminine.
- Explore the Disney morgue.
- The deadly history of nostalgia.
- Roanoke made me queer again.
- The rise and fall of the waterbed.
- Your tampon could save your life.
- The women who brought you LSD.
- Stepford wives of the 19th century.
- Anne Frank hid risqué jokes in her diary.
- Time is running out for treating gonorrhoea.
- The curious history of mommy-and-me fashion.
- The pansy craze: a history of gay nightlife in Los Angeles.
- Honoring female baseball players by wearing their lipstick?
- Today is the 50th anniversary of Hitachi’s Magic Wand vibrator.
- The murder case that gave Americans the right to remain silent.
- The woman who started the “single women and cats” stereotype.