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The secret hystery of a womb

A Renaissance image of a caesarean section inspired Anna Blundy to recount the story of a hidden, perhaps mysterious part of her body.

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Are you still nursing?

Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.

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Pain and the power of activism

Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.

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The conditional child

Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.

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  • A Caesarean section: a scene from Japanese legend. Coloured woodcut, 1646.
  • A caesarean section in progress.
  • Plate 78, Surgical technique for caesarean section.
  • A baby being removed from its dying mother's womb via Caesarean section. Reproduction of woodcut, 1483.
  • A baby being removed from its dying mother's womb via Caesarean section. Reproduction of woodcut, 1483.
  • M0007182: Manuscript illustration of the first caesarean section operation
  • The birth of the Antichrist from a dying woman via a Caesarean operation. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1475.
  • Waterloo caesarean evergreen cabbage of English growth... / agent for the west end circulation, J. Moss.
  • Caesarean section, Uganda: the patient being prepared for the operation; the sutured wound; the knife used. Ink drawing by S.W. Kelly, 1938, after R.W. Felkin, ca. 1884.
  • A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1560.
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