Articles
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The Universal Basic Income and the Myth of the Housewife
A recent article by Amber A’Lee Frost in Jacobin magazine argues that presidential candidate Andrew…
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FBI Files and Historical Practice
My undergraduates are always horrified to learn that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) once…
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Showing Up, Building Community, and Creating Grace: A Review of Lindy West’s The Witches Are Coming
At 11 am CT on January 20, 2017 — just as Donald Trump was being…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The power of mapping.…
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Mujeres Libres: Women, Anarchy, and the Fragility of Democracy in Spain
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez decided to call a snap election in April 2019…
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Medieval Bodies, Head to Toe
The skeletal diagram in Mansur ibn Ilyas’s fifteenth-century medical text, the Tashrih-i badan-i insan, looks…
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Subversive Samplers: How an Educational Exercise Became a Tool of Feminist Protest
Edith-Anne did this in 1848 and hated every stitch. In the spring of 2016, Edith-Anne’s…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Hacking Barbie. Asexuality in…
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Women in the French Resistance
In France, women have long played a vital role in the military. Like most modern…
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“If you liked this interview, you’ll love this book”: A Review of Sarah Milov’s The Cigarette: A Political History (2019)
The history of the cigarette does not begin and end with Big Tobacco. On March…
