Stories
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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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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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red
Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.
Catalogue
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Wood's household practice of medicine hygiene and surgery : a practical treatise for the use of families, travellers, seamen, miners, and others / edited by Frederick A. Castle.
Date: 1881
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The catechism of health; selected and translated from the German of Dr Faust. ... Now first published for the use of the inhabitants of Scotland by the recommendation of Dr. Gregory / edited by James Gregory.
Faust Bernhard Christoph, 1755-1842.Date: 1797
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The catechism of health; selected and translated from the German of Dr. Faust. For the use of the inhabitants of Scotland, by the recommendation of Dr. Gregory / edited by James Gregory.
Faust Bernhard Christoph, 1755-1842.Date: 1828- Books
A change for the better : how to survive - and thrive - during the menopause / Dr Hilary Jones.
Jones, Hilary (Hilary Robert)Date: 2000
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Hygèeia : or essays moral and medical on the causes affecting the personal state of our middling and affluent classes / by Thomas Beddoes.
Date: 1802-03