Articles
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Teaching Rape
Throughout my academic career, I have talked about, read about, and taught about rape. To…
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The Complicated Legacy of Carol Moseley Braun
Thus far in the Run Like A Girl series, we’ve met pathbreaking women who —…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Man to man, 1954.…
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Writing My Dissertation, A gif Odyssey
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Sex, Death, and Three Irish Women
In November 1984 the Catholic parish of Tynagh, County Galway, Ireland, gathered to bury a…
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The Mother of Title IX Goes to Washington: Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002)
When the US women’s basketball team dribbled their way to a 6th straight Olympic gold…
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Pronoun Privilege
Originally published as “Pronoun Privilege” in the New York Times on September 25, 2016. My…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Smelly history. Early French…
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Fears of a White Mother for her Biracial Son
My son could be Philandro Castile, the Minnesota cafeteria manager who was shot by police…
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“We’ve Got to Get to Work”: John Lewis’s March
Congressman John Lewis is an American hero. As he tweeted on the anniversary of the…
