Green Sickness: A Historical Look at the 'Disease of Virgins'
Explore the mysterious disease of virgins that shaped medical control over young women from the 1550s to 1920s through marriage and motherhood.
Abortion in the Medieval Church: How Catholic Teaching Changed Over Centuries
St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas didn't consider early abortion equivalent to murder. How medieval Canon Law drew distinctions the modern Church has abandoned.
Female Genital Mutilation and ‘The West’: Past and Present
Explore FGM's hidden Western history—from medieval 'corrective' surgeries to Victorian clitoridectomies performed until the 1960s in America.
What is Gender History?
From Virginia Woolf's lament to second-wave feminism—discover how gender history emerged to challenge incomplete narratives and rewrite the past.
Not 'fit for child-bearing': Fatness and (In)fertility
Explore how fat bodies were pathologized from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, linking fatness to infertility and moral failure.
'…but the Art of Midwifry chiefly concern us'!
Jane Sharp's 1671 midwifery manual celebrated midwives as essential—yet centuries later, they still fight for respect and recognition.
Green Sickness: A Historical Look at the 'Disease of Virgins'
Explore the mysterious disease of virgins that shaped medical control over young women from the 1550s to 1920s through marriage and motherhood.
Abortion in the Medieval Church: How Catholic Teaching Changed Over Centuries
St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas didn't consider early abortion equivalent to murder. How medieval Canon Law drew distinctions the modern Church has abandoned.
Female Genital Mutilation and ‘The West’: Past and Present
Explore FGM's hidden Western history—from medieval 'corrective' surgeries to Victorian clitoridectomies performed until the 1960s in America.
What is Gender History?
From Virginia Woolf's lament to second-wave feminism—discover how gender history emerged to challenge incomplete narratives and rewrite the past.
Not 'fit for child-bearing': Fatness and (In)fertility
Explore how fat bodies were pathologized from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, linking fatness to infertility and moral failure.
'…but the Art of Midwifry chiefly concern us'!
Jane Sharp's 1671 midwifery manual celebrated midwives as essential—yet centuries later, they still fight for respect and recognition.