Stories
- 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.
- Photo story
Transitioning and the family album
“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”
- Article
Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
- Article
Crones
Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.
![L'éducation physique féminine : muscle et beauté plastique / [Georges Hébert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0049885/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![L'éducation physique féminine : muscle et beauté plastique / [Georges Hébert].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0049886/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Femininity found.
Date: [1992]- Books
Femininity as alienation : women and the family in Marxism and psychoanalysis / Ann Foreman.
Foreman, Ann.Date: 1977- Books
Femininity and masculinity in eighteenth-century art and culture / edited by Gill Perry and Michael Rossington.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Ephemera
Miss Femininity : she's back!!! 18yrs blonde.
Date: [1991]- Ephemera
Miss Femininity : she's back!!! 18yrs blonde.
Date: [1991]