Articles
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A Childless Historian of Children: The Choice Not to Parent
I am a historian of women, sexuality, medicine, and childhood. As I write my dissertation…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of Father’s…
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So Much To be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
When Barbara Brenner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, friends recommended that she read…
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More Than Blood
We awoke to news of the carnage in Orlando. I had slept in — the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The anatomical Venus. Feck!…
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Queen Bee
Samantha Bee has been America’s leading late-night feminist comic for over a decade. As the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Roots and the 1970s. The…
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Poking Holes in Political Memes: History, the Welfare State, and the Trope of the Founding Fathers
An elderly man behind me in the checkout line at the grocery store asked me…
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“The Torture Began”: Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern Ireland
“They just took me into the ward and put me on the bed and told…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Shakespeare kidnappers? A bizarre…
