Nursing Clio is a collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day politic
Men’s and women’s bodies, their reproductive rights, and their healthcare are often at the center of political debate and have also become a large part of the social and cultural discussions in popular media. Whether the topic is abortion, birth control, s*x, or the pregnant body, each and every one of these issues is embedded with historical dynamics of race, class, and gender. Our tagline – The
Personal is Historical – is meant to convey that the medical debates that dominate today’s headlines are, in fact, ongoing dialogues that reach far back into our country’s past.
Our former writer Evan P. Sullivan is back to interview author Andrew Leland about his book “The Country of the Blind.” In this author interview, the Pulitzer Prize finalist discusses the challenges and opportunities that blind and visually impaired people face.
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Did you know August was Fibroid Awareness Month?
In her most recent essay, Udodiri R. Okwandu explores the racialization of uterine fibroids using a case study in the 1890s.
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is coming to a close with a concluding essay by guest editor Natalia M. Petrzela summarizing the highlights.
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ICYMI: After the passing of Peter Buxton the whistleblower of the Tuskegee Syphilis, misinformation spread about him. Susan Reverby explores why it was so difficult to get Tuskegee right.
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Interest in joining Nursing Clio? We are seeking a Book Review Editor! 📚
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📣We are excited to announce… 📣
🔸Debra Blumenthal’s essay as the 2024 winner of the Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article!
🔸Cara Delay’s essay received honorable mention!
🔸Check them out at nursingclio.org/awards!
Have you been enjoying the Olympics all weekend? 🥇
Make sure to check out our series for more stories about exercise, movement, and fitness!
All at nursingclio.org!
While major metropolitan areas, such as New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, are commonly thought of as hubs for the LGBTQ+ community, q***r individuals are everywhere. In fact, the South is home to the largest percentage of LGBTQ+ individuals living in the United States. Unfortunately, the South is also a common target for anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination. With the introduction of a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills over the past two years, the South is represented in a significant proportion of this legislation. Southern states such as Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida are each facing over 10 anti-LGBTQ+ bills.However, this targeting of LGBTQ+ rights in the South is not new, and LGBTQ+ Southerners remain resilient.
Read more of Brittany Daniel’s fantastic article at nursingclio.org!
We’ve had some great additions to our series this July!
🟠Ava Purkiss explores how exercise created “Black female intimacies” that facilitated socialization and self awareness in lives that faced violence and limitations due to race and gender.
🟠Natalia Mehlman Petrzela reflects on fitness, bodies, and aging by writing on her own personal experiences and the aerobics movement emanating out of the 1960s.
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In today’s Historical Essay, Savannah Jane Flanagan ties in reflections of the COVID-19 pandemic with a smallpox epidemic that affected North Carolina Moravians during the American Revolution. As a result, a healthcare system formed in the community, highlighting the integral role of women nurses in ensuring the community survived the epidemic. Flanagan argues the support Moravians received from elders, male doctors, and the community was vital.
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In News, last week’s essay, “The Labor of Love: Transforming Dementia Research with Alexandre Basil and Marjorie Silverman” by Jonathan Feakins explores the research of the aforementioned as transgender people live longer lives. They discuss how transgendered patients face discrimination, how their caregivers need support, and the importance listening to patients as they share their life experiences.
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This week for Nursing Clio, Arianna Injeian reports on the controversy over IVF in Alabama. Though presented as a pro-life measure, Injean shows that the desperate, confused attempt to protect IVF in the state is not pro-life, but pro-birth.
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Last week Agnes Arnold-Forster shared her personal essay, “The Strange Nostalgia of Childbirth.” She reflects on modern childbirth and being a historian as medicine during her own pregnancy.
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ICYMI, Rachel Louise Moran joins our “Clio in Motion” series! In “An Intimate Numbers Game: Histories of Quantifying Pelvic Floor Strength,” Moran examines the history of pelvic floor exercises and efforts to use technology to make these workouts more effective.
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For our Clio in Motion series, M.A. Davis writes of Betty Ford’s impact as a feminist, First Lady, and women’s health advocate! In “First Lady in Motion: Betty Ford and the Public Eye,” Davis explores Ford’s past as a dancer and dance instructor to her activism and role in public life.
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In this latest installation of Clio in Motion, Einav Rabinovitch-Fox explores the “humble” beginnings of activewear for women!
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Today our second article describes Dan McCue’s history with his backyard skating rink and the joys of skating.
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We are excited to annouce a new series, “Clio in Motion!” Our first essay is by Emily Contois. She discusses the tightening grip fitness tech has on our lives.
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Don’t forget! 🥇
Find out how to apply to 2024 Nursing Clio Prize (due May 1st) at nursingclio.org/awards
We have another exciting essay by a Writer-In-Residence—Kera Lovell!
In her essay, Kera Lovell examines how q***r youth turned to underground feminist “rags” in the search for community. Lovell is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah, Asia Campus and is currently working on a book project about how activists challenged police brutality postwar through urban protest.
Our Writer-In-Residence, Jakob Burnham, shared his first essay with last week!
His essay discusses the eighteenth-century medical community in French Pondichéry, who created an unusual replica of a “monstrous” fetus. Burnham researches French settlements on the Indian subcontinent.
For the Lunar Eclipse, we are thinking of moonshine, the celestial, and the cyclical at ! 🌖
You won’t need Eclipse glasses to enjoy these past blog posts! 👓
Last week, Nursing Clio creator and co-founder Jacqueline Antonovich interviewed 2023 Nursing Clio Prize winner Courtney E. Thompson. Thompson is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. Her prize winning article addresses pregnant children and s*xual abuse in the nineteenth century.
Find out how to apply to 2024 Nursing Clio Prize (due May 1st) at nursingclio.org/awards
🔎Have you noticed anything differently lately? 🔎
We are back with a new layout for nursingclio.org! We are loving our new look!🧡
🔸Our two latest blog posts offer fascinating perspectives on pregnancy:
🔸In today’s blog post, Stephanie Gorton interviewed Jesse Olszsynko-Gryn, the author of “A Women’s Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain.” Olszynko-Gryn argues how home test kit technologies “brought about a new sense of agency and rewrote the story of pregnancy itself.”
🔸Last week, Livia Arndal Woods, reflected on pregnancy and precarity in Victorian novels, but also modern day lives. Woods draws upon their book, “Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel,” where they argue pregnancy was “plotted as an individual choice and individual failure” in Victorian novels.
Read the full stories at nursingclio.org!
Check Out Our Staff ✏️
This winter, was featured for her work in the JSTOR Daily article, “Weaponizing Homophobia in Ireland” by Matthew Willis. Averill Earls is our amazing layout editor! 💻
Stay on the look out for all the great work done by our staff at nursingclio.org!
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Earlier this year we published Eileen Sperry’s review of “Sex Lives” by Joseph Gamble and a piece about a famous Mexico City opera singer during the 1890 Influenza Pandemic by E. Thomas Ewing and Sydney Murphy.
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🏆It’s Awards Season! 🏆
The Nursing Clio prize for best article awards the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories with a featured interview and $300 prize!
Check nursingclio.org/awards for details!
If you headed to nursingclio.org today and noticed that it was down, don’t panic! We’re currently updating the website. We’ll be back with new articles and a new look in March. Our editors are still accepting pitches for articles. We can’t wait to show you the new site!
Last week marked a year since Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest on the field.
Check out last year’s piece by Sarah Handley-Cousin’s, “On Football, War, and Trauma.” She reflects on Damar Hamlin’s injury, and the reactions of his teammates. She compares these emotions to how the physical trauma of the Civil War broadened masculinity.
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Historian Bridget Keown reflects on how the experiences of the Belgian refugees of WWI can influence and improve how we respond to refugees today. Read More: https://nursingclio.org/2017/08/22/the-trauma-of-displacement-how-history-can-help-us-understand-the-refugee-experience/
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