Dale DeBakcsy
Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney's Gender Revolution.
How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Aug 31
- 7 min
The Two Montessoris: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Educational Revolution.
Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Aug 17
- 6 min
The Electric Home: Caroline Haslett and the Rise of the Women's Engineering Society.
1919 was a year of promise born of misery. Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Aug 9
- 7 min
The Fibers of Life: Pauline Mack and the Science of What We Put In, and On, Our Bodies.
We can be a heedless species. We daily expose ourselves to wear and tear both from the environment and our own actions that take their...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Jul 8
- 7 min
The Ice Woman: Mary Engle Pennington’s Revolutionary World of Refrigeration.
In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days...
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