The #Metoo movement has made public what women have long known: that sexual assault and harassment are endemic in many […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sex ed in 1990s Britain. When salad was manly […]
Do This One Thing: Curing Symptoms not the Disorder
This spring, as I was preparing for my wedding, recovering from what was my fourth illness of the year, and […]
The Dangers of the Damaged Hero: Gender and Suffering in Romance Novels
I unabashedly love romance novels. As a reader, I find that a well-crafted happy ending is a wonderful antidote to […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of noise. Why China loves Jane Eyre. The […]
Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in the Literature of French Slavery
“Enslaved women and their children enter the archives in little more than fragments.”1 In George Sand’s 1832 idealist novel, Indiana, […]
“Now I try to live my feminist politics in bed as well as elsewhere”
When Babe published a first-person account of a young woman’s awful sexual encounter with actor Aziz Ansari, one she later […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A brief history of beards. Examining Hitler’s teeth. Flirting […]
A Referendum – and A Path Toward Reproductive Justice for Ireland?
Citizens of the Republic of Ireland will vote on a referendum on May 25, 2018 to potentially overturn the state’s […]
Joan Scott, Liberalism, and Abortion Rights
Recently, the University of Edinburgh awarded Joan Scott an honorary doctorate in social science. The hooding ceremony seemed more like […]
