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  • The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; suggesting a cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving, 17--.
  • The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.
  • UEEH : Universités d'Été Euro-Mediterranéennes des Homosexualités : Rencontres Lesbigaytransqueerintersexefeministes : for you : 20ème édition, Marseille, Luminy : 18-31 Juillet 2013.
  • UEEH : Universités d'Été Euro-Mediterranéennes des Homosexualités : Rencontres Lesbigaytransqueerintersexefeministes : for you : 20ème édition, Marseille, Luminy : 18-31 Juillet 2013.
  • UEEH : Universités d'Été Euro-Mediterranéennes des Homosexualités : Rencontres Lesbigaytransqueerintersexefeministes : for you : 20ème édition, Marseille, Luminy : 18-31 Juillet 2013.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
  • Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.