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Go Breast or Go Home: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding’s Return
As I stumble over piles of unpacked boxes in the dimly lit interior of our…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Women and the White…
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Flowers and Lady Charlotte: Talking about Menstruation, Past and Present
In some ways, 2015 was the year of the period in social media. Thinx panties,…
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The Language of the Brag
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in…
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“She Did It to Herself”: Women’s Health on Television and Film
[Spoiler alert for PBS’s Mercy Street] Like just about every other Civil War historian out…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The life of Jenny…
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Mommy Wars of Yore: Classism and its Casualties
Most of us are familiar with the Mommy Wars. The Internet is the battlefield, and…
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“The Only Menstrual Murderess”: Blood, Guns, and a Theory of Female Crime
[gblockquote]Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her father forty whacks And when she saw…
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“Serving the People”: A Review of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
As singer Beyoncé and her team of black beret and leather-sporting background dancers reminded viewers…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Suffragist Valentines. Breakfast with…
