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The pain that punished feminists

In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.

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A body apart from the head

We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.

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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists

Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.

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The eyes have it

In 1583, eye specialist Georg Bartisch published a book detailing the treatments he’d developed for various eye disorders. Today his approach seems to mix surprising innovation with entirely contemporary religious judgement.

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  • Types of punishment (?)
  • Types of punishment (?)
  • Example of Roman military punishment: Banishment
  • Sins and subsequent punishment in Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • Three illustrations of Roman military punishment: banishment, degrading punishment, and freemen degraded and sold into slavery. Etchings by A.M.I. after W. Hogarth.
  • Example of a Roman military punishment, soldiers being sold into slavery and servitude
  • Example of Decimation, a Roman military punishment where every tenth man sufferes death
  • A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.
  • The punishment of being issued barley instead of wheat. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1725.
  • The Roman miliary punishment of Humiliation either by taking away the Military Belt or Girdle or by making the offender do a task that is beneath them, more a temporary or part of a punishment
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