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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Black mothers matter. Abolitionist,…
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A Curious New Woman: Veronica Speedwell
It is June 1887, and London is preparing to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, marking…
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Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire
Had a Bloody Mary to drink at brunch? Ate a Caesar salad last week? Munched…
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Difficult Truths: A Review of Anuradha Bhagwati’s Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience
Anuradha Bhagwati is not a dude-bro. She doesn’t defend “Murica” with blind reverence. She does…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The end of men,…
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A Very Lost Cause Love Affair; or, Is It Possible to Write a Good Civil War Romance?
Ask anyone who knows me, and they’ll tell you: I love romance novels. Seriously —…
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More than Accomplices: The Crimes of Hitler’s Female SS
I did not want to stand behind the SS men. I wanted to show them…
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The Case for an African Magneto: African Experiences of Torture and Oppression during World War II
The internet broke in August when Zack Stentz, the writer of X-Men: First Class, tweeted…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How to avoid “inspiration…
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Colonial Politics are Reproductive Politics: A Review of Brianna Theobald’s Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
This year, a panel of experts on reproductive health in Indigenous communities gave a briefing…
