The Soil Rejects Her: Race, Desire and Death in Quicksand
What meaning does the ending of Quicksand confer on the story as a whole? This post explores Larsen’s tragic heroine through the lenses of black nativism, primitivism, sexual repression, and…
An exploration of female physicians and midwives in classical medicine
Women are often invisible in classical medical texts,but not because they were absent. From Athens to Rome, evidence of female physicians and midwives abounds, in inscriptions, philosophical texts and even…