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.