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women’s history

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Writing

Miami: A Beginning

by Jessica Lynne February 27, 2020December 16, 2022

Jessica Lynne remembers a long distance love affair that began in Miami and the Billie Holiday song that kept her company through the relationship’s transitions.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Instant Pot Understands the History of Women’s Labor in the Kitchen

by benhuberman October 31, 2019October 19, 2022

The history of domestic cooking is littered with useless gadgets that were supposed to make home cooks’ lives easier, and failed. The Instant Pot is a rare exception.

Posted inNonfiction

‘Horror Is a Soothing Genre … It’s Upfront About How Scary It Is To Be a Woman.’

by Laura Barcella August 14, 2019February 3, 2023

Sady Doyle discusses the connection she draws between society’s monstrous treatment of women and woman’s archetypal monstrosity.

Posted inNonfiction

Mountains, Transcending

by Ailsa Ross August 9, 2019February 3, 2023

“Ever since I was five years old,” wrote opera singer–turned–Buddhist lama Alexandra David-Néel, “I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and to set out for the Unknown.”

Posted inNonfiction

The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women

by Ann Foster July 17, 2019February 10, 2023

How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.

Posted inCulture, Story, Unapologetic Women

The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency

by Rose Eveleth July 2, 2019February 10, 2023

What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles

Posted inBooks, Crime, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story

Jill the Ripper

by Tori Telfer March 12, 2019October 19, 2022

True crime’s massive gender gap (95% of murderers are male) isn’t really one that needs fixing. And yet, since the beginning, a steadfast minority of Ripperologists have argued that Jack was really Jill.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by benhuberman October 31, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by Sara Fredman October 30, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by Sara Fredman October 30, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

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