Articles
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Fantasy and Folklore in Childbirth Narratives
Before the age of Facebook and parenting blogs, how did women exchange knowledge and beliefs…
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Don’t Bring that Anti-Choice Nonsense to the #MeToo Movement, Peggy Noonan
There have been any number of smart, critical takes on the #MeToo movement and the…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news I was Jane Doe…
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Sex on the Border: Policing Women in Red Light Districts
In 2001, a Dallas Observer reporter stepped into a shadowy, smoke-filled room and narrowed his…
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Let’s Question All Versions of the Myth of Perfect Motherhood
I would call it a “pet peeve,” but the stakes are higher: I can’t stand…
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Fleas, Fleas, Fleas
In September, I turned on Democracy Now! and came into a story about the mass…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A herstory of lesbian…
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On Poverty, Morality, and Mothering
In 1930, nineteen-year-old black (preta) Jovelina Pereira dos Santos, a live-in domestic servant in Rio…
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My Experiences with Auto-Immunity and Why I Dislike the Term “Able-Bodied”
I dislike the term “able-bodied.” I see this term used frequently in academic and activist…
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VD in the Archives
For something that played such a prevalent role in life at the front, sex and…
