Articles
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We Can Do Better Than the Suffragists
How many references to suffragists have you seen in the news lately? In April, the…
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On Hymens, Strength, and Nationalism
A few years ago, I was invited to give a talk at a reputedly radical…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Fungi and witchcraft. Old-time…
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Best of 2016
Let’s face it, 2016 was a dumpster fire and we’re glad to see it die…
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Housewives Against Dictatorship: The Bolivian Hunger Strike of 1978
On December 28, 1977 four women and fourteen children arrived at the offices of Archbishop…
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Kids and Science: An Interview with Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion is perhaps best known to our readers as a staff writer at Slate,…
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Learning to Love Science: Rebecca Onion’s Innocent Experiments and the History of an American Cultural Tradition
As a child, did your parents encourage you to participate in a science fair? Perhaps…
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Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path to a Safe and Rewarding Birth
In childbirth politics as in all politics, extreme viewpoints make the news, and sensible centrists…
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Protesting the ERA
Like many of my fellow Americans, I was glued to the television on election night.…
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Mary, Did You Know?: An Essay on Christmas Carols, Medical History, and Reproductive Politics
The Christmas season is a curious time for a historian of women’s health, abortion, and…
