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Women doctors faced profound discrimination a century ago

Bybilllefurgy

Women now make up about 60 percent of doctors under 35. The situation was very different in the past. In her book “Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply”: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975, Mary Roth Walsh recounts the terrible difficulty women faced in studying medicine and in working as physicians. During the “golden…

A viral song from 1909 turned American music sexy, rude, and violent

Bybilllefurgy

Posted on February 20, 2020 by billlefurgy Sex elbowed its way into American popular culture during the early years of the twentieth century. I learned more about this while researching my novel, Into the Suffering City, which is set in 1909 Baltimore. Romance had, of course, long been a staple of music played in the home and other…