Articles
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Bearing the Capitalist Economy: A Review of Alexandra J. Finley’s An Intimate Economy
The historiography of women’s lives under and role in slavery and the slave trade has…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How do pandemics end?…
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Creating Community and Finding Connection: A Black Nurse’s Experience in Vietnam, 1966–67
Nobody wanted Elizabeth Allen in Vietnam. From her master’s advisor who questioned why on earth…
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What About Men’s Reproductive Health?
In her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, sociologist Rene Almeling…
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The Problem with Pandemic Pay
Since March, my mother has worked twelve- to fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, processing…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The deadly story of…
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Beyond Florence: Valuing Nurses in the History of Health Care
Before COVID-19 was even a blip on the horizon, the World Health Organization had declared…
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Ear Trumpets and Archives: An Interview with Jaipreet Virdi about Hearing Happiness
Thank you so much for this book. We’ve both been teaching on Technology & Disability…
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Pregnancy and Miscarriage on Social Media: New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear
For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is naturally tempting to want…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Rebellious history. Is freedom…