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Healing hard-working hands

The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.

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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.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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Pain and the power of activism

Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.

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  • An upper class young woman; representing the St James's area of London. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
  • As a young woman looks at the dress she wears in the mirror, the reflection she sees is of a dead woman lying with her head back.
  • A Patanee couple. Gouache drawing.
  • People relaxing in a drawing-room after dinner. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.
  • Baths, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Engraving by P.W. Tomkins.
  • Baths, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Engraving by P.W. Tomkins.
  • A young homoeopath takes a cup to a sick young man hidden in his bed. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A man picks up the money spilling from a rich gentleman's pockets. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli (?), c. 1800.
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