"The chaste woman takes her chastity wherever she goes"

The Single Woman and Her Emotional Problems

The Virgin Knight: Spenser’s Embodiment of Duality in Elizabethan England

Edmund Spenser’s poetry notoriously battles itself, contorting the surface of his poetical works into an ambiguous representation of how he perceived Elizabethan England in terms of theology, sexuality, nobility, and ideology. Written as what he termed “an historicall fiction[sic],” Spenser allowed his imagination to capture and epitomize the perspectives of Elizabethan society, but in a twiste...

Terry L. Erwin: She Had a Black Eye and in Her Arm She Held a Skunk

Terry L. Erwin is Curator of Coleoptera at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C. and editor-in-chief of ZooKeys. He generated significant controversy in 1982—which continues to this day—when he published an estimate of 30 million species on Earth, which was substantially more than the nearly one million described species. He was born 1 December 194...

Let Music Sound while She Doth Make Her Choice

To attract females during courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males sing songs with motifs of varying temporal structure. In this issue of Neuron, Clemens et al. (2015) identify a song feature indicating male fitness and propose a neural mechanism for how it may be extracted from the auditory signal by female flies.

A woman in her 60s with pneumaturia.

A woman in her 60s with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes since childhood was referred as an outpatient for urological assessment because of recurrent lower urinary tract infections and macroscopic haematuria. She had suffered an episode of spasmodic back pain five days before the referral in question was issued, but no back pain since this episode. She had not had fever, and her general condit...