Stories
- Article
Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
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.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Be: Motherhood - Working Mothers
Date: 1994-1998Reference: SA/WHL/2/5Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
KykChl: Breast Cancer and Tamoxifen - Prevention
Date: 1996-1998Reference: SA/WHL/14/40/13Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Bc: Women's Health - Middle Age Women
Date: 1996-1997Reference: SA/WHL/1/12Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Bc: Women's Health Worldwide - Third World
Date: 1990-1998Reference: SA/WHL/1/34Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Be: Motherhood - Middle Aged Women
Date: 1991-2005Reference: SA/WHL/2/2Part of: Women's Health Library: archive