Articles
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Sisterhood Subpoenaed: Abortion on Trial at an 1892 Women’s Medical College
Courtroom dramas are a television staple. If the Good Wife isn’t your cup of tea,…
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Not Going Back: Queer American Families and the Value Voters Summit
On October 12, 2017, the day after National Coming Out Day, I received an email…
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Mothers’ Natures: Sex, Love, and Degeneration in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Every so often, some viral article or other will declare that science “proves” or “confirms”…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The price of fashion…
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The Enigmatic Spinster
Judging from the number of books, blogs, news articles and interviews focused on the lives…
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The Second Sentence: AIDS in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison
In January 1986, Irish current affairs program Today Tonight reported on a spate of deaths…
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Buried Secrets, Living Children: Secrecy, Shame, and Sealed Adoption Records
Between 1945 and 1973, single mothers in the United States gave birth in an era…
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My Story of 20 Weeks
20 weeks. That is the magic number according to the GOP. House Republicans last week…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Pandemic windows. The making…
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Our Favorite Podcasts
This week, we brought you interviews with the historians behind two new history podcasts, Dig and Sexing…
