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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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Belonging, babies and self-belief

As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.

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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed

Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.

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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.

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  • Grown together twins Rosa and Josefa : two mothers and one son Frantz.
  • A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • Arranged and approved : it took our mothers a long time to understand and accept our relationship, but now they feel they have each gained another son / The Naz Project London ; photography by: Parminder Sekhon.
  • An HIV positive mother looking worried as her son wraps his arms around her neck and the same mother looking happy as her son is held by a woman AIDS-worker. Colour lithograph by Lauterbach/ Boek for Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A black mother with her daughter and son with a message about how a mother tells her children about AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A father and mother greet their returning son with a crowd of people gathered outside the open door. Engraving by J. Heath after Gravelot.
  • A mother smiles at her daughter with her husband and son in the background: advert for the male condom in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Femiplan, ca. 2000.
  • A mother kneels between her two sons with a message in spanish; representing a single mother who takes precautions with men to protect both herself and her children against AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • M. de Mélincourt proudly returns from the hunt with his son, who presents to his mother and his aunt the game he has shot, though they doubt his claim. Engraving.
  • A son hugs his mother with a message about how she came to terms with him being gay; advertisement by the AFAO [Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations] and Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre. Colour lithograph.
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