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Safe Spaces: Not Just for College Campuses
While teaching the US history survey in 2013, I planned a lecture based on Danielle…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Native foods and the…
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Faith, Reproductive Politics and Resistance: A Conversation with the Reverend Joan Bates Forsberg
Reverend Joan Bates Forsberg played a notable role in struggles for contraceptive access in the…
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When the Man Gets You Down… Or the Power of Transnational Feminism
Over the last fifteen years, Latin America has seen the rise and fall of women…
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We Can Do Better Than the Suffragists
How many references to suffragists have you seen in the news lately? In April, the…
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On Hymens, Strength, and Nationalism
A few years ago, I was invited to give a talk at a reputedly radical…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Fungi and witchcraft. Old-time…
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Best of 2016
Let’s face it, 2016 was a dumpster fire and we’re glad to see it die…
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Housewives Against Dictatorship: The Bolivian Hunger Strike of 1978
On December 28, 1977 four women and fourteen children arrived at the offices of Archbishop…
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Kids and Science: An Interview with Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion is perhaps best known to our readers as a staff writer at Slate,…
