Stories
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
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Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
Catalogue
- Books
Housework / Mike Shields.
Shields, Mike.Date: 1985- Books
Housework with satisfaction / edited by Mildred Wheatcroft.
Date: [1960]- Archives and manuscripts
Ep: Work Hazards - Housework
Date: 1997Reference: SA/WHL/8/4Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Don't be a slave to housework
Date: c.1959Reference: SA/NPT/A/6/4/3/6Part of: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies- Books
The appliance of science : technology and housework / Erik Arnold.
Arnold, Erik.Date: 1985