Stories
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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
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Shame and the online free-for-all
Lucia Osborne-Crowley looks at how shame manifests online, where public humiliation is common and second chances all too rare.
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Shame and how our bodies betray us
Embarrassment about our desires, bodies and bodily functions can silence us. Lucia Osborne-Crowley asks whether a low-level but constant sense of shame is stopping us getting the help we need.
Catalogue
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Lovely lips : centrefold sweethearts good enough to eat! / Nasty Women.
Date: [20-?]
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Chinese men and women join British army staff in an evening feast. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.
Date: 1840-1850Reference: 643189i- Books
For the love of animals : the rise of the animal protection movement / Kathryn Shevelow.
Shevelow, Kathryn, 1951-Date: 2008- Books
Hoover's war on gays : exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program / Douglas M. Charles.
Charles, Douglas M.Date: [2015]
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Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
Reference: 16860i