“Males, like rats following the Pied Piper, will be lured by Pussy to their doom, will be overcome and submerged by and will eventually drown in the passive flesh that they are” (Solanas 44). Comparing men to rats, a subhuman species, is not the only derogatory analogy Solanas makes in her SCUM Manifesto. The Manifesto, written in the late 1960s during the second-wave feminist movement, charact...

In the high-choice media landscape, satire has potential to help news and politics break through information apathy barriers reinvigorate democratic debate. While scholarly attention genre of increased, interest in satirists themselves been sparse. Using a theory non-deliberative forms public discourse idea role conceptions, this study presents an analysis interviews with Swedish working broadc...

The historical library of the Heberden Society' has recently been fortunate enough to acquire what we believe to be the earliest printed medical monograph on Gout: it was published in Germany. This treatise, dated 1534, was written by Dominicus Burgauer, a physician. The slim quarto volume, printed in Strasbourg by Mathias Apiarius, has eleven leaves. Its title: 'Ob das Podagra m6glich zui gene...