Articles
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Suffering a Suffragist: An 1880s Romance
When Nursing Clio put out the call for the Romancing Clio series, I searched Goodreads…
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The Spaces of Screening: Tracing the Spatial Geographies of Mobile Mammography from Carparks to the Cosmos
In 2019, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) launched a new cancer detection initiative. In this…
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Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb
A couple patiently waits for a healthy child after a pregnancy that has lasted several…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Darwin in love. A…
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Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building
Georgette Heyer is widely considered to be the pioneer of the Regency romance. From 1921…
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“Kiss Via Kerchief”: Influenza Warnings in 1918
Just over one hundred years ago, New York Health Commissioner Royal S. Copeland responded to…
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“There’s Only One Way This War Ends”: New Ways of Telling a Familiar Story in Sam Mendes’s 1917
In the spring of 1917, the German Army was recouping from enormous losses suffered at…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The first seizure. Eat…
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Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South
The classic 1953 documentary film All My Babies features the life and work of Mary…
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Intertwined Histories and Embodied Lives: An Interview with Cassia Roth
In A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil,…
