Stories
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
- Article
Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Control Trust / Birth Control Campaign series blurb
Date: 1985 - 1996Reference: PP/WDS/B.5Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Publications by Madeleine Simms: Articles, various
Date: 1980-1983Reference: SA/ALR/G.64-77Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Pamphlets on abortion
Date: 1978-1983Reference: SA/ALR/G.177-183Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Books
Intimacy and responsibility : the criminalisation of HIV transmission / Matthew Weait.
Weait, MatthewDate: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Family Planning and Abortion
Date: 1937-1977Reference: SA/MWF/N.8Part of: Medical Women's Federation