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In nineteenth century America, young women took to studying botany—a conjoining of interest, social acceptance, and readily available schooling.

Intended to protect consumers from unscrupulous quackery, a nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising proved to be a double-edged sword.

Do those ubiquitous pink ribbons stand for women’s health concerns... or for normative concepts of beauty?

The heroines of 1970s and 80s teen horror movies were traditionally feminine, tough, and sexually confident.

In industrial-era England, children took on new value in family life. Around this time, they started to be stolen more often, too.

Jane Fonda's workout videos cracked open the idea of who exercise was for, but only to an extent.

When did heaviness and curviness in women become connected with the idea of "savagery"? It has a lot to do with 19th-century imperialist world views.

Betty Boop was literally designed to be a bombshell, but around 1935, her creators decided to change her appearance.

Chicago's "Eleanor Clubs" were designed to give young, working women affordable and congenial places to live.

This anthropologist's research on contemporary American society probes the tensions between business and art in the film world.

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