The Nursing Clio Reader

Now Available for Pre-Order RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS or BOOKSHOP.ORG [caption id="attachment_34930" align="alignleft" width="268"] The Nursing Clio Reader cover.[/caption] On June 24, 2022, the Supreme [...]

Reproduction History Syllabus

The History and Politics of Reproduction, Before and After Roe A Syllabus Thank you for helping Nursing Clio create this syllabus, which we hope will [...]

Debating Justice, Politics, and Culture in Black America, From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

What follows is a reading list based upon a writing-based history course that Austin McCoy taught in the Fall of 2015. While teaching the course, [...]

Run Like A Girl

In 2016, we - the Nursing Clio editorial collective - were excited to be living in a historic moment that (we believed) would see the [...]

Awards

Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the [...]

Photograph of a flea.

Added on November 14, 2017 Historical essay

Fleas, Fleas, Fleas

In September, I turned on Democracy Now! and came into a story about the mass extinction of a third of […]

Added on November 12, 2017 Sunday Morning Medicine

Sunday Morning Medicine

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A herstory of lesbian bars in NYC. The stimulating […]

a homeless woman holding her baby sitting against the wall on the street

Added on November 9, 2017 Culture , The Personal is Historical

On Poverty, Morality, and Mothering

In 1930, nineteen-year-old black (preta) Jovelina Pereira dos Santos, a live-in domestic servant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hid her […]

Added on November 8, 2017 The Personal is Historical

My Experiences with Auto-Immunity and Why I Dislike the Term “Able-Bodied”

I dislike the term “able-bodied.” I see this term used frequently in academic and activist scholarship, as well as everyday […]

Poster shows emaciated human figures, representing various diseases, cower beneath a partially nude female figure, representing venereal disease, chained to a vulture.

Added on November 7, 2017 Adventures in the Archives , Historical essay

VD in the Archives

For something that played such a prevalent role in life at the front, sex and venereal disease (or VD) have […]

Added on November 5, 2017 Sunday Morning Medicine

Sunday Morning Medicine

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Witchcraft in Canada. Telling menstrual tales. Better health through […]

White and green poster with yellow and green lettering. Title at top of poster. Visual images are color photo reproductions featuring dairy products, meat and other sources of protein, fruits and vegetables, and grain products. Cartoon-style illustrations of a milk bottle jumping rope, a t-bone lifting weights, a carrot doing toe touches, and a muscular potato accompany the photos. Publisher information in lower right corner.

Added on November 2, 2017 Historical essay

The Cultural Logic of Calories and Body Types

We were promised calorie labels. New York City has required them in chain restaurants since 2008 and California since 2009, […]

Added on November 1, 2017 Historical essay

Civil War Soldiers’ Wet Dreams

The American Civil War is arguably the most written about topic in American history. Yet for all that has been […]

Added on October 31, 2017 Interview

The Recovery Revolution: An Interview with Claire Clark

Nursing Clio is pleased to speak with Claire D. Clark, an assistant professor of Behavioral Science and History at the […]

Women march with signs that say things like "Violence against us does not solve problems".

Added on October 26, 2017 Historical essay

Race, Sex Education, and the Age of Consent in South Africa

One of the best and most unexpected perks of researching the history of sex education in South Africa is receiving […]