I got the chance to speak with historian Elizabeth Garner Masarik about her new book The Sentimental State: How Women-Led […]
On the Move: How Sports Clothes Became Fashion?
Even if you are not a gym rat or a sport enthusiast, it is almost impossible today to escape the […]
Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2023 Winner Courtney Thompson
Nursing Clio’s fourth annual best article prize went to Courtney E. Thompson, an associate professor of the History at Mississippi […]
Precarity and Pregnancy
When I wrote a dissertation about literary pregnancy, I had never been pregnant. By the time I submitted a manuscript […]
The Arrival of Patti: An Opera Singer in Mexico City during the 1890 Influenza Epidemic
Introduction In early January 1890, Mexico City awaited two anticipated events: the spread of a global influenza epidemic and a […]
The Intimate History of Confinement
From the first page, it’s clear that Dr. Jessica Cox’s Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain […]
In 19th-Century Philadelphia, Female Medical Students Lobbied Hard for Mutual Aid
In the waning years of the nineteenth century, future doctors kept falling sick. Students at the Woman’s Medical College of […]
“Better…at the Bottom of the Sea”?: Affect, Agency, and the Archive at Holloway Sanatorium
In August 1889, an English woman named Charlotte S. experienced a depressive episode marked by religious delusions. Convinced there “was […]
Too Young for the Hardship of Service: Age and Military Fitness in the US Civil War
In 1863, US Surgeon General William Hammond published a Treatise on Hygiene, perhaps the most influential medical text of the […]
Law, Medicine, Women’s Authority, and the History of Troubled Births: Review of Proving Pregnancy
With Roe v Wade upended, the balance of power and authority among lawmakers, medical practitioners, and pregnant and birthing people […]
