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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The WWII love letters…
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Liberty Poles and Popular Protest in the Founding Era
As the Trump presidency begins, many Americans are considering how to oppose the harmful federal…
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At the Mercy of the Sea: Women, Reproduction, and Europe’s Migrant Crisis
In 2015 over a million women, children, and men from conflict-ridden parts of Africa and…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Punk rock and public…
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Keep On Marchin’ – The Women’s Marches of 1876, 1913, and 2017
I routinely listen to Slate’s DoubleX Gabfest, a podcast about women’s issues hosted by Hanna…
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Referendum on a Life in the Woods
For three decades, my dad’s brothers framed houses. The three of them had a small…
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“Buried with Doctor’s Certificate”: Reading the Uses and Abuses of Bodies in a Medical School Thesis
Case I. May 27 1885. A. R. age 25 White, single. First pregnancy. Operation had…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Cats in space. A…
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Incarcerating Eve: Women’s Health “Care” in Prisons and Jails
In Season 4 of the hit Netflix original Orange is the New Black, we get…
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Contraception, Depression, and Who Bears the Burden of Unwelcome Side Effects
I started taking hormonal birth control pills in September 2015. That entire past summer, I…