Articles
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Rethinking Anne Boleyn. Slavery…
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Between the Pages: Victorian Women’s Letters to H. Lenox Hodge
This essay was first published at Fugitive Leaves, the blog of The History Medical Library…
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Abortion: The Archive Doesn’t Lie, but Republicans Do
There’s a story whispered among my family about one of my grandmother’s cousins. She died…
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A Brief History of “Bouncing Back”
So the world has witnessed yet another round of the Royal Baby bonanza — from…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sex, art, and misogyny.…
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“Our Moral Obligation:” The Pastors That Counseled in Pre-Roe South Carolina
On December 8, 1971, a Presbyterian pastor in Greenville, SC counseled three women on their…
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From Hospital to Home: Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
Wendy Kline has delivered a new addition to the history of childbirth in America. In…
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For Keeps: Teenage Girls and Anxiety around Sex during the 1990s
In 1995, I was sixteen and experiencing the excitement of my first real love. As…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Siberians in Hawaii. The…
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An Excellent Adventure through Real Queer America
Newsflash: Red-state America is crawling with queer people. Those polite kids handing over your order…
