Articles
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The (Historical) Body in Pain
For the last decade, I’ve been reading and writing about other women’s pain. Contractions lasting…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Cholera 101. Stonewall at…
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Her Own Hero: How Self-Defense Became Acceptable for American Women
I was a seventeen-year-old college freshman when I realized I was being stalked. It started…
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Historian Witches and Scientist Vampires: Can We Be Deborah Harkness When We Grow Up?
Historian-witches, vampire-scientists, and a world where you can get a tenure-track job at an Ivy…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Herpes in space! Waitresses…
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Mad Libs: A Guide to (White) Women’s History Month
From high school textbooks, we all learned about famous woman’s name who is known as…
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Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South: A Conversation with Diane Miller Sommerville
As I’ve written about for Nursing Clio previously, there’s been much debate in recent years…
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How to Do It: Sex Education and the “Sex Life”
In 1696, in Somerset county in southwest England, a schoolboy named John Cannon and his…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of Women’s…
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The Lady with the Alligator Purse
A Tisket a Tasket, Three Little Fishies, Baa Baa Black Sheep — these nursery rhymes…
