Stories
- Article
Belonging and why we long for it
Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers re Study Group on Single-Parent Families
Date: 1970-1971Reference: SA/MWF/F.15/17Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Single parent families : diversity, myths, and realities / Shirley M.H. Hanson [and others] editors.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Single mothers - the first year : a Scottish study of mothers bringing up their children on their own / by Angela Hopkinson ; with a foreword by John C. Spencer.
Hopkinson, Angela.Date: 1976- Books
The home that Jill built : a follow-up study of single mothers who set out to bring up their chilren on their own / Judith Lamotte in collaboration with Julie-Ann Macqueen.
Lamotte, Judith R.Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
Is this pregnancy? : what to do next, 3 stages of pregnancy, what to eat, what to wear, how a baby is born / [by Jennifer Gibb] ; [drawings by Judith Coney].
Gibb, Jennifer.Date: [1977]