Articles
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“About My Body, Let the World Do What It Will:” Suicide Letters, Immigrant Women, and Structural Violence
On Sunday March 8, 1914, twenty-six-year-old Rosa Asorowsky, a “Russian Jewess” and sweatshop worker, committed…
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The Daily Dozen: How the Father of American Football Taught Office Men to Exercise
Under-desk treadmills for the office have become a trend in the last few years. Companies…
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Poison for Penitence: A Hydrogen Peroxide Experiment on Infants in Dublin’s Regina Coeli Hostel
On October 18, 1947, the medical officer of Regina Coeli Hostel wrote: “Of 14 infants…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
This Week’s Telling the Bees: At Sea NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH)…
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Bundles of Pain, Bound by Gender: Himpathy and Misogyny in A Bintel Brief
“I have a grievous wound in my heart and maybe through the “Bintel Brief” I…
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From One to Many
Fifty years ago, the notion of Ireland as one of the leading countries on transgender…
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“Your God Cannot Be Mine:” British Reactions to the 1992 Irish X Case
Around the world, abortion and reproductive rights are under fire.[1] Women in the Irish Free…
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Nurses not Nursing: Insensible Violence and Institutional Inertia
The nursing organizations that purport to represent the entire profession repeatedly and resolutely refuse to…
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Confining yet Convenient: Using Gender Norms to Defend Oneself in Cases of Rural Spousal Violence in Post-Independence Ireland
Before divorce was legalized in Ireland in 1995, spouses desperate for freedom from an unhappy…
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The Virgins’ Malady: How Marriage Became a Medical Treatment
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale…
