Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
- Books
The risk to women of pregnancy and childbearing in adolescence : a selected annotated bibliography / World Health Organization.
Date: 1989- Archives and manuscripts
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Teenage pregnancy
Date: 1964 - 2008Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/5/9Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood / Lucy Jones.
Jones, Lucy (Journalist)Date: 2023- Journals
Information summary / International Clearinghouse on Adolescent Fertility.
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Menstruation and the female body in early modern England / Sara Read.
Read, Sara, 1969-Date: 2013