Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Sex ed in 1990s Britain.
- When salad was manly AF.
- The J. Marion Sims problem.
- The great wallpaper rebellion.
- Chinese medicine and the Black Panthers.
- Rosie the Riveter and the California dream.
- How our grandmother’s disappeared into history.
- The 12 best posters from the very odd NSA archive.
- The surprising history of old-timey Swahili postcards.
- 20th-century America’s obsession with poor posture.
- Black swimmers and diasporic understandings of water.
- Dentures and dentistry in colonial and precolonial India.
- Female sexuality has always been monstrous at the movies.
- The 1840s case of the woman hired to be a dog’s nursemaid.
- The wild 1970s ad campaign for H.I.S. Menswear (Seriously, take a look).
- American women’s obsession with being thin began with this “scientist.”
- What a blackface figurine and Chinese pharmacist tell us about Toronto’s past.
Featured image caption: Maternity Skirt. (Courtesy New York Public Library)
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.
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