In 1917, when Dr. Katharine Bement Davis accepted philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s invitation to lead the Bureau of Social Hygiene (BSH), an organization dedicated to combating sex work and…

Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…

A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of repr...

An enduring struggle for communities of color, infant mortality is a major issue especially for pregnant Black women and their newborns. Deliver Birth Justice—a public health initiative in Santa Cl…

Since its inception in 1970, Title X – the United States government’s federal family planning program – has primarily focused on helping low-income women prevent unwanted pregnancies through contra…

Nursing Clio’s 2025 Article Prize committee was thrilled to honor Elise Mitchell with an Honorable Mention for her article, “The ‘Practitioner of Physick and Surgery’ and the Enslaved ‘Doctor’: Med…

A breaking headline from 2014 reads: “Ireland Investigates Alleged Discovery of 800 Babies in Sewer Tank.”[1] Historian Catherine Corless, who had spent years amassing any documentation of the occu…

In summer 1802, a Baltimore jury convicted Esther Davis of murdering her newborn child. The newspapers that carried the story assured readers that the evidence against her was “clear and concise,” …

Abortion Stories: 9780143138204 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022 (597 U.S. 215 [2022)] was a watershed mom…

Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and…

There is no escaping cancer in the algorithm. In the months after finishing chemotherapy, targeted ads for A.I.-powered body scans filled my social media feed with stories about lurking malignancie…

Louisiana’s case against the FDA is not just about one drug.

Upon entering the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and walking through its halls, the most prominent thing that I observed were the walls decorated with paintings, plaques, and memento…

One day, while scrolling through social media, I came across the story of Santiago, a Colombian intersex man who underwent sex reassignment surgery during his adolescence. He was born with genitals…

On Sunday March 8, 1914, twenty-six-year-old Rosa Asorowsky, a “Russian Jewess” and sweatshop worker, committed suicide in Chicago.[1] Next to her body, she left “a remarkable human document &#8211…

Under-desk treadmills for the office have become a trend in the last few years. Companies like Walkingpad sell foldable versions for the office and home. The company boasts that, “No matter the wea…

On October 18, 1947, the medical officer of Regina Coeli Hostel wrote: “Of 14 infants to whose feeds Hydrogen Peroxide was added, 5 were admitted to St. Clare’s, while of 15 infants to whose feeds …

“I have a grievous wound in my heart and maybe through the “Bintel Brief” I will find relief” (Letter-writer, 1906).[1] Just as “Ask Amy,” “Ann Landers” and more recently “Hello Hayes” …

We know the images: cruise ships with sick passengers searching for a place to dock or turned into off-shore quarantine sites as passengers and crew are not allowed to disembark. In the time of COV…

Fifty years ago, the notion of Ireland as one of the leading countries on transgender recognition would have been laughable. Born of Catholic nationalism and with bans on divorce, abortion, and hom…

Skuy History of Contraception Lecture Series, 2026 Editing & Publishing the History of Contraception Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, 4:00pm – 5:30pm  In part one of this year’s Skuy History of Contracept...

Skuy History of Contraception Lecture Series, 2026 Editing & Publishing the History of Contraception Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, 4:00pm – 5:30pm  In part one of this year’s Skuy History of Contracept...

The nursing organizations that purport to represent the entire profession repeatedly and resolutely refuse to sharpen their political analysis, refuse to walk what they so readily talk, and I am fu…

Skuy History of Contraception Lecture Series, 2026 Editing & Publishing the History of Contraception Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, 4:00pm – 5:30pm  In part one of this year’s Skuy History of Contracept...

Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and…

Before divorce was legalized in Ireland in 1995, spouses desperate for freedom from an unhappy marriage sometimes turned to killing their partners. Three cases involving spousal murder between 1925…

I first learned of Katherine Walker Lindsay in early 2025 when I was examining the letter books of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for Women’s Suffrage (GWSSWS), a branch of the National U…

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief /… / Be not her maid, since she is envious; / Her vestal livery is but sick and green / And none but fools do …

I teach a course called “Women and Medicine” that explores the history of women as medical practitioners, patients, and objects of medical knowledge from the ancient Greeks to the present. Early in…

I teach a course called “Women and Medicine” that explores the history of women as medical practitioners, patients, and objects of medical knowledge from the ancient Greeks to the present. Early in…

She was alone. The men and women of the domain were all gone. In their flight, they’d set the castle town afire to deny the enemy the prize they sought. There was no stopping the enemy now — …

The Personal is Historical

Since debuting in North America in late November 2025, the Canadian streaming show Heated Rivalry has become a global sensation. Large-distribution magazines, trade entertainment press, academic bl…

In this blog, Michael Stockwell reviews a new edited collection about the feminist academic blog, Nursing Clio, edited by the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective.