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A MAGAZINE FOR THE HISTORY & POPULAR CULTURE OF SCIENCE. WE PUBLISH A VARIETY OF VOICES & WORK ON WOMEN & GENDER ACROSS THE SCIENCES.

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Living with existential anxiety: On Emily Austin’s “Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead”

Jul 27

Jul 27 Living with existential anxiety: On Emily Austin’s “Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead”

Penny Grace Young

Medicine, Myths, and Mystification: On Elinor Cleghorn’s Unwell Women

Jun 25

Jun 25 Medicine, Myths, and Mystification: On Elinor Cleghorn’s Unwell Women

Penny Grace Young

Novelist Zeyn Joukhadar ‘Chooses everything’ in the historical fiction “The Thirty Names of Night”

May 11

May 11 Novelist Zeyn Joukhadar ‘Chooses everything’ in the historical fiction “The Thirty Names of Night”

Asiya Farah Mir

Eugenic Past, Eugenic Present: On Audrey Farley’s “The Unfit Heiress”

Apr 13

Apr 13 Eugenic Past, Eugenic Present: On Audrey Farley’s “The Unfit Heiress”

Leila A. McNeill

Protecting Your Digital Body: On Gabrielle Alexa Noel’s ‘How to Live With the Internet (And Not Let It Ruin Your Life)’

Mar 9

Mar 9 Protecting Your Digital Body: On Gabrielle Alexa Noel’s ‘How to Live With the Internet (And Not Let It Ruin Your Life)’

Breaking Order, Embracing Chaos in Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist”

Feb 23

Feb 23 Breaking Order, Embracing Chaos in Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist”

'A Negotiation About Normalcy': on Jaipreet Virdi's 'Hearing Happiness'

Sep 18

Sep 18 'A Negotiation About Normalcy': on Jaipreet Virdi's 'Hearing Happiness'

Radiant We, Decaying I: on 'Radioactive'

Jul 28

Jul 28 Radiant We, Decaying I: on 'Radioactive'

Mystical Musings About the Life of Trees: On Valerie Trouet’s “Tree Story”

Apr 20

Apr 20 Mystical Musings About the Life of Trees: On Valerie Trouet’s “Tree Story”

The Science of Self-Making: Netflix's "Self Made" and the Methodology of Madam C.J. Walker

Mar 27

Mar 27 The Science of Self-Making: Netflix's "Self Made" and the Methodology of Madam C.J. Walker

Jordan McDonald

More Than Just Sex Toys: On Lynn Comella’s “Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure”

Mar 10

Mar 10 More Than Just Sex Toys: On Lynn Comella’s “Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure”

Searching for Stories, Seeing the System: Anna Wiener's "Uncanny Valley"

Feb 3

Feb 3 Searching for Stories, Seeing the System: Anna Wiener's "Uncanny Valley"

The Myth of Justice Hacks: on Christina Dunbar-Hester's "Hacking Diversity"

Jan 27

Jan 27 The Myth of Justice Hacks: on Christina Dunbar-Hester's "Hacking Diversity"

Rebecca Ortenberg

Through the Reproductive Lives of Women: On Cassia Roth’s “Miscarriage of Justice”

Jan 20

Jan 20 Through the Reproductive Lives of Women: On Cassia Roth’s “Miscarriage of Justice”

Leila A. McNeill

Life, Death, and the Lady Jedi

Dec 30

Dec 30 Life, Death, and the Lady Jedi

"Lucy in the Sky" is a disappointing first attempt at a film about a woman astronaut

Nov 4

Nov 4 "Lucy in the Sky" is a disappointing first attempt at a film about a woman astronaut

Review: Susan Mattern's "The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause"

Aug 25

Aug 25 Review: Susan Mattern's "The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause"

Review: Angela Saini's "Superior: The Return of Race Science"

Jul 28

Jul 28 Review: Angela Saini's "Superior: The Return of Race Science"

Review: Patricia Fara’s "A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War"

May 20

May 20 Review: Patricia Fara’s "A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War"

Hillary Moses Mohaupt

Review: Hallie Rubenhold’s "The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper"

Apr 9

Apr 9 Review: Hallie Rubenhold’s "The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper"