Articles
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Mesmerism, (Im)propriety, and Power Over Women’s Bodies
Mesmerism had promise. According to accounts of popular demonstrations and parlor séances of the 1830s…
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Unmasked by the Marquess and the Male Impersonator’s Tipping Point
In a moment in which trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people have quickly gained increased…
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The Slow Moon Climbs: Talking Menopause with Susan Mattern
Recently, I heard an interview with TV anchor Gayle King on the NPR show On…
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Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States
Carrie Buck was three months shy of her twenty-second birthday when she was forcibly sterilized…
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Eugenic Sperm
In 1974, a Los Angeles Times staff writer interviewed Dr. Donald Adler, a Beverly Hills…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of go-go…
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Suffering a Suffragist: An 1880s Romance
When Nursing Clio put out the call for the Romancing Clio series, I searched Goodreads…
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The Spaces of Screening: Tracing the Spatial Geographies of Mobile Mammography from Carparks to the Cosmos
In 2019, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) launched a new cancer detection initiative. In this…
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Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb
A couple patiently waits for a healthy child after a pregnancy that has lasted several…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Darwin in love. A…
