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Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a hypnotised patient at the Salpêtrière. Etching by A. Lurat, 1888, after P.A.A. Brouillet, 1887
Borders

Gender, Psychiatry, and Borderline Personality Disorder

In popular media, borderline personality disorder has become linked in particular to beautiful, unstable, and ultimately dangerous white women, most famously Glenn Close’s character in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction. As a diagnosis, borderline personality disorder went through various iterations before being declared a personality disorder enshrined in the DSM-III Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year8 months ago
Drugs

Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals

For centuries, psychiatrists searched for the cure to mental illness, frustrated that medical doctors seemed to be able to find the “magic bullet” medications to fight disease and infection. In the mid 20th century, though, a series of new major and minor tranquilizers revolutionized the world of psychiatry. Doctors doled Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years8 months ago
W.I.T.C.H. counterprotesters
Witches

WITCH: Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

On a brisk autumn day in New York City, 1968, roughly 13 women spent the morning of October 31st dressing in black cloaks and dresses. They stuck feathers, leaves, and furs in their long hair.  One woman grabbed her enormous hat, roughly in the shape of a costume witch hat, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years8 months ago
The Witch Trial, William Powell Frith, 1848
Witches

Doctor, Healer, Midwife, Witch: How the the Women’s Health Movement Created the Myth of the Midwife-Witch

In 1973, two professors active in the women’s health movement wrote a pamphlet for women to read in the consciousness-raising reading groups. The pamphlet, inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, looked to history to explain how women had been marginalized in their own healthcare. Women used to be an important part Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years8 months ago
Clubs

Who Else but the Illuminati? Conspiracy Theories, French Revolutions, and Historian Heroes

If the internet is to be believed, the Illuminati are everywhere, controlling everything. They killed JFK and Tupac, they made Lindsay Lohan famous, they stole antimatter and blew up the Vatican, they run McDonalds, and of course, they started the French Revolution. Well, the internet is not to be believed, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 3 years8 months ago
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Womyn

Victoria Woodhull: Free Love, Feminism & Finance

Victoria Woodhull was an advocate of free love, an outspoken advocate for women’s rights and suffrage, a Spiritualist medium, a stockbroker, maybe a sex worker, an all-around force of nature. She might be one of the most controversial women in American history, which means she is one of our favorites. Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 years8 months ago
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