A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Radical jugs? Afterlife of a factory. A 1907 multicultural […]
The Freshman Fifteen: A Stigmatized Phenomenon
Seventeen magazine popularized the phrase “freshman fifteen” in 1989 and the phrase remains ubiquitous in U.S. culture today.1 Seventeen’s cover […]
Take a Hay Ride: Remembering Louise Hay
On August 30, 2017, Louise Hay died. Hay was a metaphysical healer who began her journey in healing at the […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Why is giving birth so hard? Exploring the history […]
Fight and Flight: “Butch Flight,” Trans Men, and the Elusive Question of Authenticity
My junior year of college, my roommate and dear friend had a butch girlfriend. She aligned more with what many […]
“Bought some souvenirs as usual and a cheese:” Nurses’ Lives Outside the Hospital in the First World War
A great deal has been written about soldiers’ experiences behind the lines during the First World War and the relationships […]
A Midwife for Every Woman: Maternal Healthcare in Malawi
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with 50% of its population living in poverty. A landlocked country […]
Women, Prayer, and Household Authority in Irish History
Traveling through Ireland in 1909, writer Robert Lynd described “a strange crying—almost a lamentation” that one might hear “on some […]
Superhumanization
On the cover of Black stands a lone Black man in red, hood up, hands to the sky, while cops […]
History at Home in the Tenement Museum
Several times a day, several days a week, I stand with a group of strangers in the parlor of a […]
