Articles
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“There Had Been No Penetration:” Male Surgeons’ Roles in Defining Rape in Eighteenth-Century England
In July of 1715, when Mary Marsh was asked about the details of her rape,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of women…
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Not a Day for Salads: The Football Food Rules of the Super Bowl
Super Bowl LII will soon be upon us, along with its super-sized spread of snacks,…
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Women’s Health Advocacy at Work
I realized belatedly that writing a biography of a women’s health activist as my dissertation…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Tiny houses, narrow visions.…
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Fighting Back Over Leaning In: HBO’s Big Little Lies as a Lesson in Feminist Solidarity
As powerful men continue to fall in the wake of the viral #metoo movement, and…
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Catholic Women, “Family Values,” and Republican Politics: An Interview with Stacie Taranto
I recently sat down with Stacie Taranto to discuss her new book, Kitchen Table Politics:…
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Judy Blume with a Potty Mouth: A Review of Netflix’s Big Mouth
A sex education video plays to a class of middle school students. “As puberty begins,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Radical jugs? Afterlife of…
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The Freshman Fifteen: A Stigmatized Phenomenon
Seventeen magazine popularized the phrase “freshman fifteen” in 1989 and the phrase remains ubiquitous in…
