Stories
- 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.
- Article
Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
- Article
Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
Catalogue
- Books
Young women's sexual health project / Family Planning Association.
Family Planning Association (Great Britain)Date: [1994]- Books
Young women's sexual health project : final report / Family Planning Association.
Tracey, ShelleyDate: 1996- Books
Young women and the body : a feminist sociology / Liz Frost.
Frost, Liz, 1953-Date: 2001
- Pictures
- Online
Young women with their children kissing a reliquary presented to them by a hermit. Etching by Pinell, 1809.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1809Reference: 30568i- Pictures
Young women gathering autumn leaves and piling them up in a meadow. Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, 1895, after J.E. Millais, 1856.
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896.Date: [1895]Reference: 2475557i