The Time of Care: Conference Review
In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha and Stephanie Davies reflect on discussions emerging from the Time of Care conference. Towards the end of March 2023, around seventy people gathered
Gender Care and Untimeliness: Reflections on the Gender Identity Development Service
In the fifth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Jordan Osserman draws our attention to the ‘untimely’ nature of youth gender care. Many people have heard many things about this place. Few ever name
Chemical relations: a humanistic glossary of hormones
Andrea Ford explores the social and humanistic aspects of hormonally-active chemicals in a forthcoming co-edited collection Hormonal Theory: A Cascading Glossary (2024) Form follows function, as the design maxim goes, but function also follows
Silent Deaths: Women’s Erasure in U.S. AIDS Data
Hillary Ash explores the politics of gender and women in early AIDS epidemiology and data collection On September 7th, 1993, the American Broadcasting Company’s (ABC) World News Tonight aired a segment on the growing
The Gendered Spectacle of Suffering
Lucy Weir explores the gendered nature of critical responses to on-stage violence I am an art historian by training, though my expertise lies in performance, from dance and theatre to live art. Throughout my
‘Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe’ reviewed by Jessica Legacy
‘Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe’ by Michael Stolberg (Ashgate, 2015) Uroscopy is an out-dated medical practice involving the examination of urine. Physicians inspected urine colour, texture, and quality in order to detect disease and
‘The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability of Modern Arabic Literature’ reviewed by Madonna Kalousian
‘The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability of Modern Arabic Literature’ by Abir Hamdar (Syracuse University Press, 2014). From Evelyn Accad’s Sexuality and War (1992) to Nawar Al-Hassan Golley’s highly condensed theoretical elaboration in Arab
‘Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS’ reviewed by Dr Chisomo Kalinga
‘Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS’ by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press, 2014) In Love, Money and HIV: Becoming A Modern African Woman in the