historyextra.com/membership/from-plague-searchers-to-strawberry-birthmarks-a-history-of-womens-bodies From plague 'searchers' to strawberry birthmarks: a history of women's bodies
Historian Erin Maglaque traces how society has understood the female body over the centuries, and how stubborn the beliefs about it have been. The through-line is a long record of confident claims about women's bodies that outlasted the evidence for them.
— via HistoryExtra (BBC), Lauren Good
