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AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards

The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.

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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men

The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.

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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.

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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.

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  • Drop-in afternoon for women affected by HIV & AIDS.
  • Drop-in afternoon for women affected by HIV & AIDS.
  • Two smiling women leaning on a hand rail representing women who want safe sex with a list of AIDS-related helplines for women in Australia; advertisement by The Women & AIDS Project of the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Loonie Lane and Sandy Edwards.
  • Three middle-aged women sit chatting at table in a cafe representing an advertisement for safe sex for women by The Women & AIDS Project of the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Loonie Lane and Sandy Edwards.
  • A group of women and their babies in a kitchen representing an advertisement for safe sex for women by The Women & AIDS Project of the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Loonie Lane and Sandy Edwards.
  • Four women sit emboidering and making rugs in a rural setting; representing women who have avoided AIDS and are supporting themselves financially; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Women from different professions with one figure blanked out in white representing a warning to women about AIDS; advertisement by the NAC/IEC (National AIDS Commission), Belize. Colour lithograp by Artworks/Visual Impact, 1993.
  • Three women working with axes in a field as their childen sit playing to the right representing women who are supporting themselves and avoided AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The faces of black men and women representing black people in New York united in their support against AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • The faces of 8 women arranged in a semi-circle below the word 'SIDA' which drips red (blood) on to the woman at the centre; an advertisement for events on women and AIDS to commemorate World AIDS Day in 1990. Colour lithograph by Carlos Haces, 1990.
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