Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. The history of medicine, of illness, is every bit as social and cultural as it is scientific. It is a history of people, of their bodies and ...

Introduction: Whose stories are we telling? -- In and out of the studio : early professionals and amateurs -- Avant-gardes : modernity and the "new woman" -- On the street : documentary and reportage ...

The assault on LGBTQ people from right wing Republicans continues unabated. In 2024 alone, 527 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the U.S. attacking the rights of queer ...

Life courses and gender roles -- Marriage and family -- Sex, body, and medicine -- Labor, profession, and everyday life -- Religions -- Arts, literature, and education -- Five women to remember ...

Gender socialization is a fundamental development aspect, shaping how people perceive themselves and interact with the world. Gender socialization is the process of a person learning and internalizing ...

Although 17th-century colonial Virginia seems like an unexpected place to defy the gender binary, a 26-year-old servant named Thomasin Hall did just that. As if life in colonial Virginia wasn’t ...

In the years since the dismantling of Roe v Wade, women have seemed to lean in towards the hyperfeminine by adopting or, at the very least, performing incredibly traditional gender roles.