A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A brief history of ramen.
- A mini history of the tiny purse.
- The world that Jazzercise built.
- A hidden history of Father’s Day.
- C-section viewing parties in Brazil.
- No one talks about perimenopause.
- The cynical politics of Donald Duck.
- A brief history of sex in Ancient Rome.
- Exploring the lesbian herstory archives.
- Why did Henry VIII divorce Anne of Cleves.
- Melissa Cargill, The Grateful Dead, and LSD.
- Rashes to research: the 1964 rubella epidemic.
- How men’s bodies change when they become fathers.
- Frida Kahlo’s only known voice recording possibly found.
- The 19th-century lesbian made for 21st-century consumption.