Everything, of course, has a history, and in her book, Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Deviance, Desire and the Pursuit of […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sex and the Irish. The Tudors are trending. It […]
Bodies in the Way: Delhi’s Dead and the Pressures of Space
In 1930, Delhi’s residents were sorely in need of a new hospital. The city’s population had ballooned by more than […]
Tracing the Red in “Redbone”: Colorism and Misogyny in Black History
“My peanut butter chocolate cake with Kool-Aid” – this line from the 2016 song “Redbone” by Childish Gambino (aka Donald […]
Walls of Moms: Maternal Bodies and Public Space in Portland and Argentina
On July 18, 2020 a group of mothers gathered on the streets of Portland. These women, the majority of whom […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
Contact your senators. Vote. May her memory be a revolution. Featured image caption: From left to right: Justice Sandra Day […]
Mind the Gap: Motivational Pressure and a Gendered Pandemic
In the midst of the pandemic, articles by journalists, public figures, and scholars on how to capitalize on time spent […]
Cite My Name, Cite My Name
A couple years back, I was co-teaching a graduate course on gender history at the University of Edinburgh. I was […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Elvis in the box. “Are you popular?” Skating on […]
Dead Babies in Boxes: Dealing with the Consequences of Interrupted Reproduction
One morning in June 2019, two city workers in Lyon, France, pulled a plastic bag out of the river that […]
