Stories
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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.
- 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.
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
- In pictures
The dangers of women’s speech
For centuries, women have been ridiculed and punished for excessive talking, despite the fact that men gossip just as much.
Catalogue
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Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and redemption over time / Floris Tomasini.
Tomasini, FlorisDate: [2017]- Books
Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / Austin Sarat.
Sarat, AustinDate: ©2014- Pictures
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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- Books
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Notes on 'Danes' skins' / by H. St. George Gray.
Gray, Harold St George, 1872-1963.Date: 1908- Books
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Military miscellany : comprehending a history of the recruiting of the army, military punishments, &c., &c / by Henry Marshall.
Date: 1846