Stories
- Photo story
My body, my hair
To depilate or not to depilate? Farah Esset and Eden Rickson share a collection of personal pictures and stories that explore the intimate interplay between body hair and identity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Article
The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
- Books
Plucked : a history of hair removal / Rebecca M. Herzig.
Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-Date: [2015]- Books
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The use of electricity in the removal of superfluous hair : and the treatment of various facial blemishes / by George Henry Fox.
Date: 1886- Ephemera
Directions for using Hindoo Hair Destroyer : this preparation is divided into two parts, #1 and #2 ... / Frederica Hudson Ltd.
Frederica Hudson (Firm)Date: [1937?]- Ephemera
All claims confirmed : a few remarkable letters that prove my claim that superfluous hair can at last be eradicated, root and alll for ever / Frederica Hudson.
Frederica Hudson (Firm)Date: [1937?]- Videos
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Removal of tonsils and adenoids.
Date: 1930