Stories
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
The meaning of trauma is wound
Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.
Catalogue
- Film
Examination of the pelvic organs. No. 2.
Date: 1973- Videos
Examination of the pelvic organs. No. 2.
Date: 1973
- Ephemera
- Online
Female reproductive organs / Robinson & Sons Ltd.
Robinson & Sons Ltd. (Chesterfield, England)Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]- Books
Cancer of the female reproductive organs / Alfred I. Sherman.
Sherman, Alfred I.Date: 1963
- Digital Images
- Online
Plate 76. Surgical instruments - female reproductive organs.
Nicolas-Henri Jacob