Doris Day, Viral Language, and Hedgehogs

Plus: How Film Noir Tried to Scare Women out of Working [] To ensure delivery of your JSTOR Daily please add daily@jstor.org to your address book. [] Weekly Digest [Web Version](6858/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] 6858/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [Doris Day Changed Us Forever](6858/ct1_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Cara Strickland [] Doris Day's 1953 film Calamity Jane is loosely based on the life of Wild West legend Martha Jane Canary Burke. The movie sought to capitalize on the success of Annie Get Your Gun (1950), which featured another straight-shooting female lead from the Wild West. Moviegoers in the early 50s were clamoring for strong female characters, unaware that young girls might still be watching their same movies decades later for the same reason. [] [Read More](6858/ct1_2/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] 6858/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [When Language Goes Viral](6858/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Chi Luu [] How do innocuous words become insidious in the face of a public health emergency? [Read more...](6858/ct2_2/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] 6858/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [How Film Noir Tried to Scare Women out of Working](6858/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Kristin Hunt [] In the period immediately following World War II, the femme fatale embodied a host of male anxieties about gender roles. [Read more...](6858/ct3_2/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] 6858/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [The Study of Human Anatomy and the Corpses of Vienna](6858/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Livia Gershon [] For cultural and geographical reasons, the city was a great place to find bodies to dissect. But there was also the matter of one well-connected doctor. [Read more...](6858/ct4_2/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] 6858/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [The World's Fair That Ignored More Than Half the World](6858/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Rachel B. Tiven [] The spectacle of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was unrivaled in its time. But it hardly represented the “world” of women and African-Americans. [Read more...](6858/ct5_2/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] ADVERTISEMENT [] [JSTOR Daily](6858/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] 6858/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [Biomimicry Comes for the Noble Hedgehog](6858/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Liz Tracey [] Inventors often use animals' adaptations to the environment in applications that benefit humans, from sharky swimsuits to hedgehog-inspired helmets. [Read more...](6858/ct7_2/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] 6858/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C [] [How the English Found Cannabis](6858/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] By Benjamin Breen [] From Public Domain Review: In the 17th century, the English were introduced to cannabis in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. [Read more...](6858/ct9_1/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) [] [] [] Contact Us 101 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006, USA [daily.jstor.org](6858/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) | daily@jstor.org | [@JSTOR_Daily](6858/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) | [Facebook](6858/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C) ©2004-2020 ITHAKA. All Rights Reserved. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Interested in advertising with JSTOR Daily? [Contact us](6858/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C). If you prefer not to receive email messages from JSTOR Daily in the future, you may [unsubscribe here](6858/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AQ5B1mT82C).