Stories
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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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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
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What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Catalogue
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Born to procreate : women and childbirth in France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century / Rolande Graves.
Graves, Rolande J., 1938-Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Reproducing the womb : images of childbirth in science, feminist theory, and literature / Alice E. Adams.
Adams, Alice E. (Alice Elaine), 1957-Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Gendered conceptions : reproductions of pregnancy and childbirth in Greek literature / Yurie Hong Easton.
Easton, Yurie Hong.Date: 2007- Books
Life begins : childbirth in lore & in literature / by Morris Braude.
Braude, Morris, 1883-Date: 1935- Books
Fear in the medical and literary imagination, medieval to modern : dreadful passions / Daniel McCann, Claire McKechnie-Mason, editors.
Date: [2018]