When I was researching my first book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America (2009), one of the most frequent […]
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When I was researching my first book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America (2009), one of the most frequent […]
“To know a story is to carry it always, etched in his bones, even if dormant for decades.” (Melissa Fu, […]
In Pushing Cool, Dr. Keith Wailoo presents a sixty-year history of menthol cigarettes becoming a racialized product. Wailoo has written […]
I almost didn’t read The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager. When I saw the premise – a […]
If the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a unique ability to muddle our perceptions of time, it has also made us […]
Marga Vicedo’s Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother is […]
What does it mean to have a “real choice” about abortion? I am writing this book review as the Supreme […]
The title of Lauren Groff’s ambitious new novel, Matrix, is deliberately multivalent. In Latin, it points us toward the leader […]
My undergraduate and MA adviser, Dr. Angela Howard, argued that women across time and space often have remarkably similar experiences […]
Transitions can be hard, especially when one has spent decades teetering on shifting sand. With my menopause comes an emptying nest […]