A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A place where you felt safe.
- The women of Regeneración.
- Distilling the past at Mt. Vernon.
- Is the prairie dress anti-feminist?
- W.B. Yeats’ live-in “spirit-medium.”
- How to succeed at nursing (in 1892).
- Making American labor visible again.
- Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! . . . To the stacks!
- The real sex lives of historical queens.
- Silent film of black couple’s kiss discovered.
- Cat and mouse: force-feeding the suffragettes.
- Inside the effort to write women into art history.
- The designer who revolutionized women’s wear.
- How a woman gets written out of her own obituary.
- Louis XIV turned anal fistulas into a hot fashion trend.
- How 343 women made history by talking about their abortions.