Stories
- Article
Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
- Article
Communities of cross-feeders
A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
Catalogue
- Books
Woman life freedom : voices and art from the women's protests in Iran / edited by Malu Halasa.
Date: 2023- Books
Love, madness, and scandal : the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck / Johanna Luthman.
Luthman, JohannaDate: 2017- Books
That good night : life and medicine in the eleventh hour / Sunita Puri.
Puri, Sunita, 1979-Date: 2019- Books
Mr Loverman / Bernardine Evaristo.
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-Date: 2020- Student dissertations
Visions of healthy mothers and beautiful babies : motherhood, childhood, and the Women's Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in south India, c. 1919 - 1939 / Rebecca Jane Williams.
Williams, Rebecca Jane.Date: 2008