Articles
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Thomsonianism Meets Juice Cleanses
I will be the first to admit that I love juices. They’re colorful, full of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Prehistoric baby bottles. Black…
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“Good” Teeth: American Dental Care and Classism
I used to hide my own teeth. It started in fourth grade during spring photos.…
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Understanding Shaming’s Place in History: The Story of Germany’s Victims
It can be difficult for those who have never experienced sexual violence to understand and…
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A Bloody Sweater and a Pair of Dentures
Private Togo Piper didn’t have many personal belongings. When he died overseas in May 1943,…
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“Immoderate Menses” or Abortion? Bodily Knowledge and Illicit Intimacy in an 1851 Divorce Trial
In 1851, four years after actress Josephine Clifton’s death, she was named as one of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news States of immunity. A…
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“A Most Damnable Fraud?” Public (Mis)conceptions and the Insanity Defense
James Kahler murdered his two daughters, ex-wife, and grandmother in Kansas on Thanksgiving in 2009.…
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“The Egg” in the Twenty-First Century: A Family’s Holistic Healing and Cleansing Practice
In the early 2000s, my great-aunt performed a holistic healing act on my mother with…
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“Who but Women Should Manage It?”: Convalescent Home Matrons and Medical Recuperation
Today we often hear reports about women’s invisible labor. Female family members do the lion’s…
