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Comment on Veterans Day Celebration: Where are the Women? by hmprescott

hmprescott — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:27:52 +0000

Both Susan Slaga and Mark McLaughlin sent out messages on the campus listserv. I also promoted it on Facebook and it was on the university calendar feed. The problem is the Herald didn’t see fit to announce it or cover it.

Comment on Veterans Day Celebration: Where are the Women? by ctwit

ctwit — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:15:49 +0000

Hey, Clio, I never even heard about this event on campus (and, as I think you know, I keep track o’ these things so I can announce them on my radio show). Send me details of anything you want promoted/announced.

Glad it was a good event, if under-attended.

Comment on Sex and “Mad Men” by hmprescott

hmprescott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:11:24 +0000

Hi Sungold,

I answer your questions in Chapter 7 of my book _Student Bodies_.

Comment on Sex and “Mad Men” by Sungold

Sungold — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:06:58 +0000

Great post. I think part of the problem stems from thinking in terms of decades. The years from 1967 through the early 1970s are what we actually think of as the “Sixties.” I would like to know more about single women’s access to the Pill from 1967 through 1971, when the last legal barrier fell away with Eisenstadt v. Baird.

Comment on Sex and “Mad Men” by Must be swell being a steer : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:34:10 +0000

[...] you haven’t seen it already, go read Knitting Clio’s post on the state of heterosexuality and the pill in the early 1960s, which she wrote in response to my post about what a grim, joyless undertaking is heterosex on [...]

Comment on Sex and “Mad Men” by historiann

historiann — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:14 +0000

Thanks, KC–this is really terrific. I’ll link to it in the comments and in the post I’m writing for today.

I just find it so interesting to have people our age, post-AIDS, imagining the sex life of the early 60s. I think the show very much reflects their perspective rather than that of the early 60s. (But how could it not, right?)

Comment on Good Cause, Bad Idea for Fundraiser by Once Again, Jail and Bail Fundraisers aren’t cool « Knitting Clio

Once Again, Jail and Bail Fundraisers aren’t cool « Knitting Clio — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:36:25 +0000

[...] on November 8, 2009. Filed under: Things that piss me off, disability studies | As I wrote back in April, fundraisers that “arrest” and “jail” volunteers for fundraising purposes [...]

Comment on Sloppy Medical History Reporting at NPR by Tim Lacy

Tim Lacy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:52:37 +0000

Well said. The history of medicine is not my primary field, but pragmatism (and want the desire to do something new) caused me to put together a course on the subject, with a U.S. focus, that I taught in the Spring 09 term. Your statement above jives completely with my reading. Paul Starr’s now old work (STAM, 1982) did the grunt work on showing how the elitist AMA was an obstructionist org with regard to universal health coverage. I would add that medical science as we know it had already taken substantial shape by the 1890s. Yes, post-docs still took their turns in Austria, Germany, and France in the 1890-1910s era, but American medicine and research were on their way to being what they’d become in the interwar era (post-Flexner Report).

I think your larger point is that you, and I too, expect better from mostly high-quality program like *All Things Considered*. Disappointing. – TL

Comment on New Feminist Disability Blog Launched by Chally

Chally — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:57:50 +0000

Thanks for the link.

Comment on Obama Racism and Sexism Watch by purecommonsense

purecommonsense — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:37:44 +0000

People like Al Sharpton are quick to jump on the slightest soundbite. But Jesse Jackson saying “hymie town”? Who cares about that.