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  • A woman's face on shattered glass: women's health rights in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • A black female silhouette figure with a purple drape and long hair dancing to the left representing an advertisement for a programme about Women's Rights to commemorate World AIDS Day in Honduras. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two women from Zanzibar, one milking the other's right breast into a cup.
  • Left, a woman undressing (?) to take a bath; right, two women preparing a bath. Woodcut by Sukenobu, 1736.
  • Various wigs and wig accessories for women, left; two patterns of wigs for men, right. Engraving by R. Bénard.
  • Dancing spectres (centre), a man and a woman arguing (left), and two women arguing over a man (right). Coloured etching.
  • Javanese dancers, with men on the left and women on the right, accompanied by a musician. Engraving by T. de Bry.
  • Two fashionable women who wear extremely high wigs; to the right a gentleman greets them by taking his hat off. Engraving, 1773.
  • Dance of death: three music-making and dancing skeletons flanked by two women on the left and a couple on the right. Etching.
  • Mont Alto Sanatorium for tuberculosis, Pennsylvania: view showing the Men's Camp (left) and the Women's Camp (right), with the Recreation Hall in the foreground. Photograph, 1920/1940?.
  • Two Indian women: (left) wearing pink and grey striped trousers and (right) wearing trousers banded with a wavy red pattern. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two Indian women: (left) wearing pink robes and (right) holding a model of a temple and a peacock-feather fan. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Barcelona: a staircase leading up to the women's department; to the right is the metal barred window of the pharmacy. Photograph.
  • Two women at a wash-basin; to the right is a man with the attributes of an initiate of Dionysus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Three women working with axes in a field as their childen sit playing to the right representing women who are supporting themselves and avoided AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A group of men and women, some dressed in saris, and a man with a turban far right with a message in Indic about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Left, a woman is attacked by Renwick Williams with a knife; right, a man is making "copper bottoms" for women to prevent them from being injured in an attack. Coloured etching.
  • Left, a woman is attacked by Renwick Williams with a knife; right, a man is making "copper bottoms" for women to prevent them from being injured in an attack. Coloured etching.
  • Left, a woman is attacked by Renwick Williams with a knife; right, a man is making "copper bottoms" for women to prevent them from being injured in an attack. Coloured etching.
  • Left, a woman is attacked by Renwick Williams with a knife; right, a man is making "copper bottoms" for women to prevent them from being injured in an attack. Coloured etching.
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.
  • Two women at a shrine; a kite is resting on a box and bundle on the right; part of a ceremonial gate is visible on the left and a stone lantern is seen beyond. Colour woodcut, ca. 1800.
  • To the left a woman wearing the Hungarian (?) national costume comprising a lattice patterned tight-fitting bodice, voluminous skirt, wide sleeves and a head-dress; to the right eight heads of women wearing fashionable head-dresses. Coloured engraving.
  • The planets and signs of the zodiac send down their influence on to the body of a man on earth; women representing nature (?) and medicine stand on the left, while scholars watch and dispute on the right. Engraving, 16--.
  • An interior of a room in which a man is having his face washed and lathered by a young woman; to the right stand three other women, to the left a seated couple look on. Etching by Rennoldson after Wale.
  • A face with a tongue hanging out lit from the right with a series of smaller photographs of men and women in changing coloured borders; advertising a congress for people living with HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Norbert Heuler and Detlev Pusch, 1990.
  • A distressed woman cradles the body of a dying child in her arms while another woman holds a mask in her right hand. A bearded man and two women watch the scene from a distance. Etching by J. Gregory after M.L.L. Willmann, 1794.
  • A skimmington or charivari: people make noise and are violent in the street as a form of rough justice exercised by women against men; on the right Hudibras enters on horseback, and is hit in the eye by a thrown egg. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • A man apparently with an STD looking alarmed as he holds up a sheet to cover his genital area; with three further anxious men and women with similar complaints to the right; a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Above left, a woman with a baby on her back, preparing to smoke a pipe (?); above right, men and women walking in line; below, an ox leading peasants to the Kawaguchi temple. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with top left design by Kunichika and design below by a pupil of Kyōsai, ca. 1870.