Category: season 4
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Episode 54 BEWARE Independent Women: The History of Psychiatric Asylums
Asylums always bring up images of horror. Whether in pop culture or fall haunted attractions, the stories around asylums are never good. Asylums were created as places to care for the mentally ill, but eventually turned into institutions that took advantage of a vulnerable population AND found ways to punish women for being too ambitious…
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Episode 53 Lowkey Influencer, Highkey Educator: The Life of Maria Montessori
Imagine a little kid at school sitting on a little rug playing with wooden building blocks to learn math, reading in a circle with their friends, sharing with their parents all the things they learned that day when they go home. That was the vision that Maria Montessori had when she started teaching young children…
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Episode 52 Cervical Cancer: A Story of Prevention
Cervical cancer is not like other cancers. This cancer is oh so special because it is caused by the virus HPV. Not only that, but there are multiple prevention methods in place to help lower women’s risk of developing this cancer!! But despite that, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women today.…
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Episode 51 Plucked, Shaved and Waxed Away: History of Body Hair Removal
Is shaving a regular part of your shower routine? Or maybe you wax, pluck, sugar, laser or just let it grow out! Regardless of what your relationship is with body hair, we’ve all got it and that means you’ve likely thought about whether or not you want to do something about it. This episode, we…
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Episode 50 Unique, Respected, and NOT Edible: The Placenta
Tik Tok is full of trends, including trends that include eating your placenta or having a lotus birth. But is this a trend that has existed throughout human history? The placenta is an extremely unique organ that humans have been fascinated with for centuries. From Pharaohs carrying their placentas into battle to hanging placentae in…
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Episode 49 The Mother Egg: A History of In-Vitro Fertilization
Sperm meets egg makes baby, should be simple right? Well if it were, infertility would not be a common struggle for millions of people around the world. But through incredible technology and research, assisted reproductive techniques have been created like in-vitro fertilization (IVF) have been created to help people get pregnant. And they work! Join…
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Episode 48 Melancholy Mothers: The history of Peripartum Psychiatry
Some people say that women ~ glow ~ when they are pregnant. Or that having a baby is one of the best memories they have. But did you know 80% of women have depressive symptoms in the week following childbirth? Or that ⅛ women develop a condition called postpartum depression? Some women are even at…
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Episode 47 The Wickedest Woman in New York: Madame Restell
Do you know how the wickedest woman in New York got her name? Ann Trow, or as she was better known, Madame Restell, was a prominent abortion provider in the late 1800s. She had no medical training, and yet started a business from the ground up, making medication abortion pills and doing surgical abortions. Her…
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Episode 46 Ovists vs. Spermists: The Discovery of Fertilization
Fertilization, conception, the miracle of life. The conjoining of egg and sperm. Women have been having babies since the beginning of time, so it makes you wonder. Did people always know where babies come from? Spoiler alert: they had no idea. Join us in this episode to see how famous physicians like Galen and Hippocrates…
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Episode 45 Free the Nip: Breasts Throughout History
There’s really no body part so politicized or fetishized than a woman’s breast. But this was not always the case. For hundreds of years, the breast was a primary symbol of nourishment and nurturance–the sign of a mother’s love. The story of the breast and how it has been perceived throughout history is a fascinating…
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