@jackiantonovich
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
"Our HIPPO initiative will unite emerging technologies and human expertise to support future generations while minimizing hippopotamus-related carnage. We will move quickly: I have requested that each committee submit a preliminary proposal to my office by the end of the calendar year."
A black dog sitting in a patch of pachysandra
Can you spot the dog?
Screenshot of title page of my book: Her Body, Her Cure On the Personal & Political in Wellness Culture Michelle Cohen
Screenshot of a portion of my book (opening lines of Chapter 1)
Thrilled to share an update on my book!
I wrote about wellness culture, women's health, and the history & politics of both.
Have you wondered why the wellness industry is ♀️ dominated? Or why COVID seemed to push wellness culture to the far right?
I explore this and more - coming out early 2027.
I think about that every day.
Fun fact: In Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm’s famous anti-tech speech basically quotes More Work For Mother
…then completely ignores half the point
I loved “The Midcentury Kitchen.” Found it on a lark via a tweet and it was totally worth it
New job:
Postdoctoral Fellowship - JHU Dept of History of Medicine & Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69869
Loose lips, fine for ships. Something like that.
UAE-based reporter Inzamam Rashid also just said on MS NOW that he’s been watching a vessel burn in the strait for the past couple of hours.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton to life imprisonment
The 75-year-old was set to be executed even though he was not the person who shot and killed the victim
Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"
a lot of you don't understand what the difference is between "automation" and "technology" which is, I guess, a win for AI grifters everywhere!
🔥 When I assign the article, this paragraph is the one students most want to talk about
You cannot have a critique of the source material unless you have, in fact, read the source material.
Oh, btw, I am blocking anyone who reposts or replies with snarky comments and haven't obviously read the book.
Oh guess what actually www.amazon.com/Midcentury-K...
I elaborated on this point in both TAKING THE WHEEL:WOMEN AND THE COMING OF THE MOTOR AGE and in my essay in SEEING NATURE THROUGH GENDER, titled, “Man and Nature: Sex Secrets of Environmental History.” Went to the trouble of weighing my groceries to prove a point about unmechanized domestic labor.
Yes!!
This book is very old, but I still teach it because it's so relevant and it never fails to create generate epiphanies for students.
In 1983, Ruth Schwartz Cowan published a book called More Work for Mother where she argued that modern household tech (washing machines/vacuums) didn't reduce women's housework time, it just raised standards of domesticity. Household work is never shortened by tech & you can extrapolate that out.
This video or using that word?
His repeated use of the word "females" is all I need to see.
I totally get the financial pressures, but I can think of a zillion different ways we could solve this problem other than less school or compressed curriculum.
Also, I wonder what the gender breakdown of this is because smart girls and women are often told this.
I wonder how many historians and other academics had similar report cards, because 👀
That's what we do best...
Yep! Supplements and self-care instead of vaccines and public health.
