Articles
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The Dangers of the Damaged Hero: Gender and Suffering in Romance Novels
I unabashedly love romance novels. As a reader, I find that a well-crafted happy ending…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of noise.…
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Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in the Literature of French Slavery
“Enslaved women and their children enter the archives in little more than fragments.”1 In George…
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“Now I try to live my feminist politics in bed as well as elsewhere”
When Babe published a first-person account of a young woman’s awful sexual encounter with actor…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A brief history of…
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A Referendum – and A Path Toward Reproductive Justice for Ireland?
Citizens of the Republic of Ireland will vote on a referendum on May 25, 2018…
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Joan Scott, Liberalism, and Abortion Rights
Recently, the University of Edinburgh awarded Joan Scott an honorary doctorate in social science. The…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The first gay cookbook.…
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How To Cook and Cure: Early Modern Recetas
Recipes can quickly transport us to particular times and places. A glance at this vintage…
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Heterosexuality in Medicine
I walk into the examination room, dreading what is about to happen. My heart’s racing.…
