A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Jane Austen’s whisper network. Do quarantines work? A history. […]
Becoming Rodin’s Lover: Camille Claudel and Mental Illness
“Why have there been no great women artists?” feminist art historian Linda Nochlin asked in her 1971 essay of the […]
The “Textile Memoir”: A Review of Threads of Life by Clare Hunter
[gblockquote source=”Clare Hunter, Threads of Life“]Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth; patterning our place in the […]
Fight Cancer like a Feminist
On May 2, 2018, I was coming out of anesthesia from an emergency appendectomy when I learned I might have […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Your chemical romance. The work of getting clean. War […]
World War II Romance Takes Flight: With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin
A confession: I am a fairly new romance reader. I only picked up my first true romance novel about a […]
Celebrating the Fourth Age: Mapping Menopause with Curiosity and Love
Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life is a beautiful and complex book grappling with […]
Containing Explosives: The Cold War Link between Bombs and Breasts
I don’t know that it’s possible to watch Mad Men without experiencing a healthy envy of Betty Draper’s flawless white, […]
Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy
On January 3, 2020, I was at my mother’s house where CNN is her constant companion. A drone strike ordered […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Charting pain in 1879. So you want to be […]
