Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez decided to call a snap election in April 2019 following the withdrawal of support […]
Women in the French Resistance
In France, women have long played a vital role in the military. Like most modern militaries, in multiple conflicts the […]
“Immoderate Menses” or Abortion? Bodily Knowledge and Illicit Intimacy in an 1851 Divorce Trial
In 1851, four years after actress Josephine Clifton’s death, she was named as one of Edwin Forrest’s adulterers during the […]
“Who but Women Should Manage It?”: Convalescent Home Matrons and Medical Recuperation
Today we often hear reports about women’s invisible labor. Female family members do the lion’s share of housework and caregiving […]
What Women “Want”: Wordsmithing Education Reform Rhetoric
Persuaders and Persuadees The decentralized nature of public education in America means that any one individual who wants to implement […]
Uncovering the Convent
I study nuns. Now, let me start by saying that I’m not Catholic; I just study nuns in the nineteenth […]
Murder, She Miniatured: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Homemaking and Homicide From the outside, Frances Glessner Lee’s childhood home resembled a prison. H. H. Richardson designed the home […]
Between the Pages: Victorian Women’s Letters to H. Lenox Hodge
This essay was first published at Fugitive Leaves, the blog of The History Medical Library of The College of Physicians […]
From Hospital to Home: Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
Wendy Kline has delivered a new addition to the history of childbirth in America. In her engaging and well-researched book, […]
Japan’s Once and Future Female Emperors
With the abdication today of the Japanese emperor, Akihito, and the passage of the throne to his son, talk has […]
