A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Finding Hope. A history of the clitoris. A brief […]
A View from Inside the Suburban Mom Movement
Before 2016, conversations at school pickup time in my affluent suburb nearly always revolved around kids’ activities and home remodeling. […]
Pokémon Go, Before and After August 12
Before I. It is early summer, 2018. I am a Virginian, but I have just moved to Charlottesville, Virginia after […]
How to Start a Feminist Restaurant: A Chat with Alexandra Ketchum
Just as Nursing Clio has covered #MeToo stories in academia, on the street, and in the bedroom, the movement plays […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Sinister hunger stones. Abandoning “addiction.” A history of supper […]
Repositioning the Family and the Household in a Global History of Abortion: The Case of Early-Twentieth-Century China
In May, NC editor Cassia Roth and Diana Paton organized the Intimate Politics: Fertility Control in a Global Historical Perspective […]
The Favorite Sister
There are few things I enjoy more in my fiction than a good, unreliable narrator. As someone who loves the […]
On Infanticide and Reluctant Maternity: Between Personal Testimony and Historical Sensitivity
As a historian of gender and medicine, I sometimes have nightmares about the scenes of medical suffering that appear in […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news TV and the bomb. Exploring IQ tests in 1911. […]
Are Our Smart Devices Turning Us into Dumb Humans?
Are all of our “smart” devices training us to be “dumb” humans, too-often indistinguishable from mere machines? As click-through contracts […]
