On October 29th, 1743 at seven o’clock in the morning in the city of Pondichéry–a former French colony in South […]
How Louis Ziskind Helped Deinstitutionalize Mental Healthcare
Perched among the lumpy hills and modest cottages of Los Angeles’s Echo Park, a hospital sits. You would not expect […]
“Mistreatment by Words and Blows”: Domestic Violence between Lived Realities and Colonial Meanings
The evidence of domestic violence in eighteenth-century Pondichéry – France’s former colony in South Asia – resides in what might […]
Silenced Suffering: The Historical and Contemporary Plight of Black Women with Uterine Fibroids
Fibroid Awareness Month – an annual observance to educate, inform, and raise awareness about uterine fibroids is observed annually in […]
All We Want is the Facts…Or Not
“All we want is the facts, ma’am,” the fictional Los Angeles Police Sergeant Joe Friday used to say dryly on […]
Y’all Means All: Past and Present LGBTQ+ Rights in the South
While major metropolitan areas, such as New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, are commonly thought of as hubs […]
Listening to Women Nurses and Caretakers: A Case Study from the Smallpox Epidemic Among North Carolina Moravians
As we reflect on how COVID-19 continues to shape society, the centrality of nursing during health care emergencies becomes clear. […]
Personhood Politics: Decoding Alabama’s Reproductive Discourse
In 2020, several frozen embryos were accidentally destroyed in a Mobile, Alabama clinic. This event catalyzed numerous lawsuits and eventually […]
Queer Teenage Feminists on the Printed Page, 1973 to 2023
When sixteen-year-old Jane wrote into Ms. Magazine in the mid-1970s, she did so in a desperate search for hope. As […]
Fetal Remains, Knowledge, and the Making of Early Modern Monsters
In 1734, scholars at France’s Royal Academy of Medicine encountered something unique: a tiny, nearly perfect replica of a fetus […]
