Articles
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Bundles of Pain, Bound by Gender: Himpathy and Misogyny in A Bintel Brief
“I have a grievous wound in my heart and maybe through the “Bintel Brief” I…
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From One to Many
Fifty years ago, the notion of Ireland as one of the leading countries on transgender…
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“Your God Cannot Be Mine:” British Reactions to the 1992 Irish X Case
Around the world, abortion and reproductive rights are under fire.[1] Women in the Irish Free…
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Nurses not Nursing: Insensible Violence and Institutional Inertia
The nursing organizations that purport to represent the entire profession repeatedly and resolutely refuse to…
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Confining yet Convenient: Using Gender Norms to Defend Oneself in Cases of Rural Spousal Violence in Post-Independence Ireland
Before divorce was legalized in Ireland in 1995, spouses desperate for freedom from an unhappy…
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The Virgins’ Malady: How Marriage Became a Medical Treatment
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale…
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Review of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)
I teach a course called “Women and Medicine” that explores the history of women as…
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The Secret Ingredient is Hope: Heated Rivalry (2025), US Television & the Historical Pathologization of Gay Desire
Since debuting in North America in late November 2025, the Canadian streaming show Heated Rivalry…
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‘A real woman would had buried her child’: Social Media Discussion of the Disposal of Fetal Remains
This essay is the second of a two-part series on fetal remains and cultural politics.…
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After a Miscarriage, What Happens to the Fetus? The History is Complicated.
This essay is part one of a two-part series on fetal remains and cultural politics.…
