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Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum
This past spring, the defunct Willard Psychiatric Center (previously known as the Willard Asylum for…
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Milk Sharing: What History Can Teach Us
Milk sharing has been in the news lately. In 2013, Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The media’s first moral…
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A Cut Above? Cesarean Sections in Brazil
In the opening scene of The Knick, Steven Soderbergh’s period drama about a fictionalized version…
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Suffragette, T-Shirtgate, and a Taylor Swift Tweet: Breaking Down the Historical Problem of White Lady Feminism
Can rich, white ladies be effective feminists? In the court of public opinion these days,…
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Toxics in our Living Rooms
The comfortable chair that I just bought and sit in for hours each day is…
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We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 19th century marriage manuals.…
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All Memorials are Political — Just Ask the Homeopaths
Over this past summer, I spent about two weeks on a research trip in Washington…
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What’s on Your Feminist Playlist?
Music played a pretty important role in my life as a kid, but I always…
