Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Radio ratings are slipping for a pair of married comedians. They are […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The banjo and racist revisionism. The ballet girls who […]
Teaching Rape
Throughout my academic career, I have talked about, read about, and taught about rape. To be clear, rape is not […]
The Complicated Legacy of Carol Moseley Braun
Thus far in the Run Like A Girl series, we’ve met pathbreaking women who — with the notable exception of […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Man to man, 1954. The return of the utopians. […]
Sex, Death, and Three Irish Women
In November 1984 the Catholic parish of Tynagh, County Galway, Ireland, gathered to bury a woman who had been dead […]
The Mother of Title IX Goes to Washington: Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002)
When the US women’s basketball team dribbled their way to a 6th straight Olympic gold this summer in Rio, they […]
Pronoun Privilege
Originally published as “Pronoun Privilege” in the New York Times on September 25, 2016. My fall classes started recently, and […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Smelly history. Early French dermatology. Collecting in the wake […]
