A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Wretched strumpets. Whiskey and slavery. Queering oral history. Death by […]
A Childless Historian of Children: The Choice Not to Parent
I am a historian of women, sexuality, medicine, and childhood. As I write my dissertation on the history of sex […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of Father’s Day. Ether as a recreational […]
So Much To be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
When Barbara Brenner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, friends recommended that she read Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals. […]
More Than Blood
We awoke to news of the carnage in Orlando. I had slept in — the first long, good night’s sleep […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The anatomical Venus. Feck! A history of swearing. The […]
Queen Bee
Samantha Bee has been America’s leading late-night feminist comic for over a decade. As the longest serving correspondent in the […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Roots and the 1970s. The disorientation of illness. A history […]
Poking Holes in Political Memes: History, the Welfare State, and the Trope of the Founding Fathers
An elderly man behind me in the checkout line at the grocery store asked me what I do. When I […]
“The Torture Began”: Symphysiotomy and Obstetric Violence in Modern Ireland
“They just took me into the ward and put me on the bed and told me they were going to […]
