Christine Jorgensen was used to unwelcome attention, but this was a new level of outrage. After undergoing hormone therapy and surgeries in Copenhagen, the 27-year-old Danish-American had returned …

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07.12.2024

Periods on the Table: Taking stock of the menstrual equity movement in Canada – Nursing Clio

In Canada, it seems that “period” is no longer a dirty word. Since the Canadian Menstruators pushed to remove the federal tax on menstrual supplies in 2015, Canadian period politics have expanded t…

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12.12.2024

I’ll Be Right Here: Disability Intimacy & Medical Trauma in E.T. – Nursing Clio

Steven Spielberg’s 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was an integral part of my family’s classic movies, a list that also included The Wizard of Oz, It’s A Wonderful Life, the original Star Wars tril…

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19.12.2024

Gone to China: Risk and Reward in the Travel Diaries of Martha Foster Crawford – Nursing Clio

Martha Foster Crawford thought that she would literally die. Hagiographical stories of missionary wives who had succumbed in the foreign field, one at the age of only nineteen, circulated broadly i…

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“The Relationship Between Public Morals and Public Toilets”: Christine Jorgensen and the Birth of Trans Bathroom Panic – Nursing Clio

Periods on the Table: Taking stock of the menstrual equity movement in Canada – Nursing Clio

I’ll Be Right Here: Disability Intimacy & Medical Trauma in E.T. – Nursing Clio

Gone to China: Risk and Reward in the Travel Diaries of Martha Foster Crawford – Nursing Clio

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