Stories
- Article
The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- Article
NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
Catalogue
- Books
Knowledge as resistance : the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering / Stevienna de Saille.
de Saille, SteviennaDate: [2017]- Books
Neuroscience and critique : exploring the limits of the neurological turn / edited by Jan De Vos and Ed Pluth.
Date: 2016- Books
A bookshop of one's own : how a group of women set out to change the world / Jane Cholmeley.
Cholmeley, JaneDate: 2024- Books
Women, migration and empire / edited by Joan Grant.
Date: 1996- Books
Work : the last 1,000 years / Andrea Komlosy ; translated by Jacob K. Watson with Loren Balhorn.
Komlosy, AndreaDate: 2018