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” […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A new Hippocratic oath. How I became radicalized. Compounding […]
The Racist Lady with the Lamp
Nursing historiography is centered on whiteness. Even worse, nursing history revolves largely around a single white nurse: Florence Nightingale. This, […]
Why Are So Many Fellowships Residential?
It’s fellowship application season for academics. A time when we all beat the bushes of the internet, trying to find […]
A Historic Intersex Awareness Day
This year’s Intersex Awareness Day, October 26, marked a historic pivot. A few days before, Boston Children’s Hospital revealed that […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Monstrous men. Coming out as intersex. The long-lost ritual […]
Marie Branch and the Power of Nursing
[gblockquote source=”Barbara Rhodes, PhD, September 1975″]“It is overdue for racism to be rousted from its seat of power and that […]
The Fifth Vital Sign: How the Pain Scale Fails Us
Last October, I slumped in a chair at the doctor’s office while a nurse asked me if I felt any […]
The Little Suffragist Doll: Cotton, White Supremacy, and Sweet Little Dolls
What does a pattern for doll-making have to tell us about the racial and gender politics of American suffragists in […]
