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The editors of Nursing Clio (www.nursingclio.org) welcome applications for new regular and guest bloggers for the site. The editors are especially looking for authors who write about the experiences of women of color and non-US topics. Interested authors should submit original essays of 800-1,500 words that include relevant hyperlinks as well as the author’s bio line, limited endnotes, and a list of further reading. Submissions should be accompanied by the author’s curriculum vitae or resume. Essays should be submitted as word documents (.doc or .docx), and authors should format according to the Nursing Clio Style Guide available on our website. All essays submitted to Nursing Clio are subjected to an open peer review process for content, style, and format. Authors should be sure that their essay is written in a voice suitable for blog publication and reflect the mission of Nursing Clio. Our editorial team welcomes essays based on a broad range of subjects and experiences, including original research, book reviews, memoirs, “Adventures in the Archives,” and other reflections. Submissions or inquiries should be sent to the editorial team at nursingclio@gmail.com

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The Secret to Girls’ Success (Think: Periods)

By Lara Freidenfelds

When you were 14, if you had your period, but your parents couldn’t buy you pads or tampons, would you have gone to school? It’s unimaginable, right? It would have been too gross and humiliating to even consider. Better to pretend to be sick, and deal with the missed work and the bad grades.

In many parts of the world, that’s exactly what happens. And that means that girls don’t get educated, even where they have access to schools.

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Sunday Morning Medicine

By Jacqueline Antonovich

-The pirates of Lake Michigan.
-The 16th-century dance plague.
-Down Syndrome isn’t just cute.
-A history of blood transfusions.
-The “headhunters” of Coney Island.
-Help preserve history in just one click.

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A Short History of the Penis, Masculinity, and American Feminism

If you haven’t heard of Claire Wyckoff, the San Francisco woman who copywrites by day for a global advertising firm […]

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Adventures in the Archives: Living in a Material World

By Jacqueline Antonovich

A wise woman once remarked, “We are living in a material world and I am a material girl.” And while this ode to consumption may have been referring to the procurement and enjoyment of luxury items, I think Madonna may have been on to something – though perhaps not in the way she intended. You see, over this past summer I had an unintentional, but deeply meaningful, love affair with . . . material culture.

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The Body as Archive

Trying to become a public historian and freelance writer in grad school is requiring me to walk a difficult tightrope. […]

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Women in Tech from ENIAC to MOM

On September 24, as I enjoyed my second coffee of the morning and caught up on news, a photo caught […]

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Sunday Morning Medicine

By Jacqueline Antonovich

-The midwives of St. Croix.
-Male midwives of Ethiopia.
-America’s coolest ghost towns.
-Does cancer spread while you sleep?
-Life in a 1930s psychiatric hospital.

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Advertising Hormonal Contraception: Medicalizing the Natural

In recent years, there has been great debate about access to contraception, particularly the hormonal birth control pill. In 1957, […]

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Pregnancy Is Bad for Women’s Health

By Ginny Engholm

Our sentimentalizing of pregnancy, combined with our faith in modern medicine, have contributed to a backlash against birth control, encouraging us to see pregnancy as low risk and to lose sight of its dangers and perils. Contraceptives — and legal access to them — continue to be a source of controversy, political wrangling, and ideological posturing because the political and cultural discussion surrounding them focuses on issues of personal choice and sexual mores rather than questions of health. The recent Supreme Court decision regarding Hobby Lobby reflects this view of birth control as a matter of religious conviction and personal choice rather than reproductive health. If pregnancy is so natural, so low risk for women, then preventing pregnancy is not a medical issue, but rather a personal decision. Even efforts to argue that women use birth control for other health reasons, such as treating PMS or endometriosis, miss the point that limiting, preventing, and spacing pregnancies are medical reasons to use birth control. The backlash against contraceptives stems, in part, from our current misguided view of pregnancy as a low risk medical event for women. The problem with this view is that pregnancy is dangerous, and medical science has a long history of revealing its risks and perils for women.

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