A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Your chemical romance. The work of getting clean. War […]
World War II Romance Takes Flight: With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin
A confession: I am a fairly new romance reader. I only picked up my first true romance novel about a […]
Celebrating the Fourth Age: Mapping Menopause with Curiosity and Love
Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life is a beautiful and complex book grappling with […]
Containing Explosives: The Cold War Link between Bombs and Breasts
I don’t know that it’s possible to watch Mad Men without experiencing a healthy envy of Betty Draper’s flawless white, […]
Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy
On January 3, 2020, I was at my mother’s house where CNN is her constant companion. A drone strike ordered […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Charting pain in 1879. So you want to be […]
“Stories in Plain View”: Cat Sebastian’s Revolutionary Queer Historical Romances
It’s no secret that I love romance novels. At its best, the genre challenges traditional narratives by offering emotional and […]
The Complicated World of Female Loyalism: A Review of Kacy Dowd Tillman’s Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution
Any scholar who teaches or writes about the era of the American Revolution understands that the category of loyalism is […]
Death, Danger, and Decadence in 1920s Dublin: The Murder of Honor Bright
After the body of twenty-five-year-old Dublin woman Lizzie O’Neill, also known as “Honor Bright,” was found in June 1925, Irish […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Amazon women were real. A midwife in North Country. […]
