Stories
- 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
Battling the heteronormativity of sexual health
As a queer, Black women, Mary W is sick of the never-ending hetero-cycle of clinic appointments, where her needs and sexuality are always a surprise to the doctor. She calls for a revolution.
- Article
Thalidomide, a bitter pill
Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.
- In pictures
The birth of ante-natal classes
Is childbirth an athletic feat? Kathleen Vaughan certainly thought so, developing the first modern exercise class for women in pregnancy.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Photographs: Pregnant Women
Date: 1986Reference: SA/NCT/P/1/2/15Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)- Archives and manuscripts
Arrangements for the Care of Tuberculous Pregnant Women
Date: 1951-1954Reference: SA/NBT/K.2Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
Memorandum on "Therapeutic Irradiation of Pregnant Women in Relation to Developmental Defects in Children"
Date: Oct 1955Reference: PENROSE/2/35/4/62Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Ephemera
Pregnant pause : a guide for lesbians on how to get pregnant / Stonewall, The London Women's Clinic.
Date: [2009?]- Books
Pregnant women / [National Dairy Council].
Date: 1992]