Articles
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At the Mercy of the Sea: Women, Reproduction, and Europe’s Migrant Crisis
In 2015 over a million women, children, and men from conflict-ridden parts of Africa and…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Punk rock and public…
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Keep On Marchin’ – The Women’s Marches of 1876, 1913, and 2017
I routinely listen to Slate’s DoubleX Gabfest, a podcast about women’s issues hosted by Hanna…
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Referendum on a Life in the Woods
For three decades, my dad’s brothers framed houses. The three of them had a small…
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“Buried with Doctor’s Certificate”: Reading the Uses and Abuses of Bodies in a Medical School Thesis
[gblockquote source=’Marie K. Formad, “Some Notes on Criminal Abortion,” thesis submitted to Woman’s Medical College…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Cats in space. A…
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Incarcerating Eve: Women’s Health “Care” in Prisons and Jails
In Season 4 of the hit Netflix original Orange is the New Black, we get…
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Contraception, Depression, and Who Bears the Burden of Unwelcome Side Effects
I started taking hormonal birth control pills in September 2015. That entire past summer, I…
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India’s Commercialized Surrogacy: Blurring the Lines of Empowerment and Exploitation
Susheela, a woman from a small Indian village in western Uttar Pradesh, never imagined the…
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Eggsploitation Cracked Open
“What’s a few eggs between friends?” Many egg donation advertisements, like the examples here, suggest…
