Articles
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The Gendered Politics of Sweat
[gblockquote source=”Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat” (1926)”]“Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of virility.…
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Women’s Health Care: Not Just for Women Anymore
Mammogram waiting rooms are sometimes different from other medical waiting areas. If you’re going to…
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Sorry, I’m Disabled. Oh, Wait, I’m Not Sorry, Just Disabled.
“Sorry,” I say, “Sorry, but would you mind giving me the directions again a little…
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Sex and the Purple Guy
Originally published by Tropics of Meta on April 21, 2016. For a generation of youth…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 2,400-year-old life advice. “Fishwife”…
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A Letter to the Lady in Pants: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker and the History of Women (Un)Worthies
“WALKER, Mary Edwards (Nov. 26, 1832 – Feb. 21, 1919), Civil War medical worker, dress…
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Pink Hollyhocks
This month, National Poetry Month, we encounter a poem both contemporary and historical — “Pink…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Have you got the…
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Trump’s Part in Centuries-Long History of Punishing Women and Doctors
In a recent campaign interview with Chris Matthews, presidential candidate Donald Drumpf contended “there has…
