A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Defunding the (drug) police. The literary life of Octavia […]
Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail and Histories of Native American Nursing
I first encountered Susie Yellowtail (Crow) in a July 1934 letter in which a physician on her reservation condemned her […]
Food Media, Gender, and Power: An Interview with Emily Contois
Emily J. H. Contois has been researching masculinity in American diet culture for over a decade. During that time, the […]
Diners, Dudes, and Diets
It took me six months to dream up the title Diners, Dudes, and Diets (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news London’s mudlarks. Finding Afro-Mexico. The history of nachos. Alexander […]
Rethinking Women, Gender, and War: A Feminist Approach
These four pathbreaking essays provide new insights into the role of women and war in military history. They pay particular […]
It Just Wasn’t a Good Fit
Charity Adams Earley’s winter coat didn’t fit. At the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center in Des Moines, Iowa, in […]
Writing “Hearts and Minds” as Feminist Military History
I was very proud to defend my dissertation on the British Indian Army on March 8 – International Women’s Day […]
Beyond Women and War: The Lens of Feminist Military History
My first understandings of feminist military history developed when I was an officer in the US Air Force in the […]
The Guerrilla Household of Lizzie and William Gregg
Taking a feminist lens to the Civil War in Missouri–known for its models of hypermasculinity like William Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” […]
