Articles
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Hospital Confinement: From the 19th Century to the 21st
Last summer I had a very different experience of childbirth than most women. I was…
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Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth
The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden…
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“Weaponized Babies”; or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?
News that Senator Tammy Duckworth brought her baby to the Senate floor for a vote…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news What’s a museum? How…
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Public Theater and Health Care in the Early Modern Spanish World
In May of 1646, don Duarte Fernando Álvarez de Toledo Portugal, the Viceroy of the…
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It’s (Not) in Your Head: When Bodies Defy Logic
“If you say too little they can’t help you, and if they say too much…
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The Stain of Slavery is Silencing Sexual Violence Against Black and Brown Women
I am an American woman who has never experienced sexual assault, rape, or coercion. Bully…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Disability, race, and art.…
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Lizards and the Idea of Mexico
In the summer of 1782, Don Juan de Luna, a respected elder citizen of the…
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“No-Tell Motels”: Abortion in Pre-Roe South Carolina
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal…
