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Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of Personal Stereo, a cultural history of the Walkman, and the Kindle single The G Ring: How the IUD Escaped the Nazis.

What Masks Signify

What Masks Signify

Decades ago, the sociologist Erving Goffman had the answer

by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow | Saturday, October 02, 2021
Unsentimental Education

Unsentimental Education

Mary Ware Dennett’s quest to make contraception—and knowledge about sex—available to all

by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow | Thursday, March 04, 2021

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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