The Freshman Fifteen: A Stigmatized Phenomenon Olivia Howard Arts & Culture, Gender Studies Seventeen magazine popularized the phrase “freshman fifteen” in 1989 and the phrase remains ubiquitous in U.S. culture today.1 Seventeen’s cover story “Fighting the Freshman 15” depicted the...
Chemical Entanglements: An Introduction UCLA Center for the Study of Women Science & Medicine In the mid-20th Century, the mantra “better living through chemistry” emerged as a guiding principle for American industrial production and consumer culture. Decades on, alarming questions about the...
The Long Reach of Female Genital Mutilation Jayne Amelia Larson Society & Culture As an American woman living in Los Angeles, I’d rarely heard about and knew next to nothing about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)—it simply wasn’t in my sphere of awareness. But I assumed it was an...
