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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Apr 7, 2015
“Cherish Every Moment” of Parenting?
“Cherish every moment! It goes by so fast.” A well-meaning stranger admired my teeny tiny 3-week-old son, as we searched for baby wipes...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Feb 4, 2015
Getting Weepy Over a Maxipad Commercial During the Superbowl
One of the most popular ads at the Superbowl this year was “Like a Girl.” Respected documentary director Lauren Greenfield asked a series...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Jan 20, 2015
Can a Gluten-Free Diet, Qi Gong, or Ballet Barre Cure my MS? Only a Randomized Controlled Trial Can
“You have multiple sclerosis? My cousin cured her MS with a gluten-free diet and qi gong — you should really try it!” Since I was...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Dec 8, 2014
The Modern Period: why the history of menstruation is about so much more than blood and Kotex
*Half-price sale on my book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America! Ask someone to talk about her experiences with...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Oct 29, 2014
The Secret to Girls’ Success (Think: Periods)
* My book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America, is on sale for $30 hardcover! When you were 14, if you had your...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Oct 20, 2014
The Beauty of the Post-Pregnant Body: Reka Szabo’s Baby Pouch Dance
* My book, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America, is on sale for $30 hardcover! It’s time to write about naked...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Sep 19, 2014
Review: Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science’s Surprising Victory over HIV
What would you do if you desperately wanted to have a baby, and your spouse had HIV? In the mid-1990s, the introduction of...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Aug 20, 2014
Whose Sperm Counts?
Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Aug 7, 2014
Should We #FreeTheNipple? Maybe Male and Female Aren’t That Different After All
When I was little, I copied my dad and took off my shirt on hot summer days. He would be doing yard work, and I would be running around...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Jul 23, 2014
If You’re Not My Kid, Please Don’t Call Me “Mom”
The dentist peered in my child’s mouth, then turned to me. “Hey, Mom, you did a good job, no cavities!” I brought my kids for a check-up...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Jun 18, 2014
These Days, Even Conservative Dads Want Daughters to Lean In
Appeals court judges who have daughters are more likely to make liberal or “feminist” decisions in gender-related cases than are judges...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
May 28, 2014
Are We Having Fun Yet? Jennifer Senior’s Smart, Historically-Informed Take on Modern Parenting
In All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting, Jennifer Senior asks why American middle-class parents so often find parenting...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
May 21, 2014
If the IUD is an Abortifacient, then so is Chemotherapy and Lunch Meat
When I criticized Hobby Lobby for its attempts to evade the Obamacare contraceptive mandate, a friend of mine thoughtfully replied,...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
May 15, 2014
Is Contraception “Health Care”? The Hobby Lobby Case
As we wait for the Supreme Court to render a decision on the Hobby Lobby contraception coverage case, I have been pondering the...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Apr 5, 2014
Sportscasters Apologize, But Do They Miss the Point?
On Friday, April 4, sportscasters Boomer and Carton apologized for their remarks criticizing baseball player Daniel Murphy’s decision to...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Apr 4, 2014
Sportscasters Advocate Elective Cesarean Section
Yesterday, Momsrising.org and others excoriated sportscasters Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton for obnoxiously opining that baseball...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Mar 28, 2014
Misunderstanding Miscarriage
Miscarriage rarely makes the news, except in tabloids. But last year, Virginia state Senator Mark Obenshain’s ill-advised attempt to...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Mar 20, 2014
Innovations in Marketing to Pregnant Women: Sears “Baby Book,” 1907
In 1907, Sears came up with a fantastic new idea for marketing to pregnant women: it hired Mrs. Eliza Emerson Goff to organize all its...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
Mar 16, 2014
Welcome
Welcome to my blog. I’ll be giving the historian’s perspective on women’s health, sex and society.
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