Articles
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Women, Animals, and the Poetry of Activism
“What could be more calculated to produce brutal wife-beaters than long savage cruelty toward the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The arsenic eaters. Does…
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Clio Talks: An Interview with Historian Jessica Martucci
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing historian Jessica Martucci at length about her…
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Go Breast or Go Home: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding’s Return
As I stumble over piles of unpacked boxes in the dimly lit interior of our…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Women and the White…
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Flowers and Lady Charlotte: Talking about Menstruation, Past and Present
In some ways, 2015 was the year of the period in social media. Thinx panties,…
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The Language of the Brag
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in…
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“She Did It to Herself”: Women’s Health on Television and Film
[Spoiler alert for PBS’s Mercy Street] Like just about every other Civil War historian out…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The life of Jenny…
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Mommy Wars of Yore: Classism and its Casualties
Most of us are familiar with the Mommy Wars. The Internet is the battlefield, and…
