Can rich, white ladies be effective feminists? In the court of public opinion these days, it seems the answer is […]
Toxics in our Living Rooms
The comfortable chair that I just bought and sit in for hours each day is giving me a sore throat […]
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 19th century marriage manuals. Advertising tuberculosis cures. Dolly Madison’s […]
All Memorials are Political — Just Ask the Homeopaths
Over this past summer, I spent about two weeks on a research trip in Washington D.C. I decided to take […]
What’s on Your Feminist Playlist?
Music played a pretty important role in my life as a kid, but I always listened to what my parents […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 5 forgotten wives. Revisiting the cow killer. The politics […]
Premature Birth and the Right to Grieve
There are quite a few ways to experience loss of pregnancy. When I was expecting my own daughter, no woman […]
Average-looking Married Couples Having Caring, Respectful Sex
A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The torrid history of absinthe. Things historians can’t live […]
