Stephanie Richmond

Stephanie Richmond

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Stephanie J. Richmond is an associate professor of history at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a historian of gender and race in the Atlantic world and is currently working on a manuscript on antislavery women and the origins of feminism. She also dabbles in digital history and serves as the treasurer of The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. You can find her online at sjrichmond.com.

Clio Reads

Bottled Racism: A Review of Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice by Andrea Freeman

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In recent years, the black maternal and fetal health crisis has been front page news, and for good reason. Black women die from pregnancy complications at three times the rate of white women, and the black infant mortality rate is more than double that of all other ethnic groups. Due to racism in the medical… Read more →

MeToo

Demanding to Be Heard: African American Women’s Voices from Slave Narratives to #MeToo

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The #Metoo movement has made public what women have long known: that sexual assault and harassment are endemic in many workplaces. Using the power of social media, brave women have revealed the abuses men in positions of power have inflicted on the women who worked for them. Women have been revealing the abuses of powerful… Read more →

Clio Gets Personal, Health and Wellness

Hospital Confinement: From the 19th Century to the 21st

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Last summer I had a very different experience of childbirth than most women. I was not entirely sure what to expect when my husband drove me to the emergency room on the night of July 4, leaking amniotic fluid 10 weeks early. Rather than the straightforward checking of vitals and intermittent monitoring as labor gradually… Read more →