Stories
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
Battling the heteronormativity of sexual health
As a queer, Black women, Mary W is sick of the never-ending hetero-cycle of clinic appointments, where her needs and sexuality are always a surprise to the doctor. She calls for a revolution.
- Article
Thalidomide, a bitter pill
Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.
- In pictures
The birth of ante-natal classes
Is childbirth an athletic feat? Kathleen Vaughan certainly thought so, developing the first modern exercise class for women in pregnancy.
Catalogue
- Books
Pregnant women / [National Dairy Council].
Date: 1992]- Books
Pregnant women at work / edited by Geoffrey Chamberlain.
Date: 1984- Books
Pregnant passion : gender, sex, and violence in the Bible / edited by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan.
Date: [2003], ©2003- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with members of [Technical Advisory] Committee and other interested organisations
Date: Oct 1951-Nov 1953Reference: SA/NBT/K.2/3Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
Papers for meetings and reports of meetings
Date: Jul 1951-Aug 1952Reference: SA/NBT/K.2/2Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund