In her new book The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, social historian Hallie […]
What Women “Want”: Wordsmithing Education Reform Rhetoric
Persuaders and Persuadees The decentralized nature of public education in America means that any one individual who wants to implement […]
Shame and Shearing: The Politics of Women’s Hair in Independence-Era Ireland
The mother pleaded with them and asked them if they had daughters or sisters of their own. Without answering they […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Epidemics and urban design. Radical psychiatry: 50 years later. […]
Dinner with Death: Kate Bender, Murder, and Mayhem on the Kansas Prairie
With the close of the American Civil War, western states like Kansas teemed with travelers and refugees seeking opportunity and […]
Over-the-Counter Anxiety: Selling the Home Pregnancy Test
Walk through the aisles of any American drugstore, and you’ll eventually encounter the home pregnancy test section. Because of the […]
Hannah Gadbsy and the Comedy of the History Lecture
She had me at Douglas’ Pouch. The Mary Toft reference was just a bonus. I went to Hannah Gadsby’s stand up […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The vaccine whisperers. Reimagining female beauty. The racist story […]
Disappointed Love and Dangerous Temptations: Textile Factories and True Crime
Mary Bean enjoyed “unlawful relations” in the summer of 1849; by the fall she was pregnant. In November she entered […]
Searching for Solidarity in Madeline Miller’s Circe
Released just over a year ago, Madeline Miller’s Circe has since appeared on several bestseller lists and earned even more […]
