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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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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.

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Thousands of years of women’s pain

Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.

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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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  • Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken in 1989
  • Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
  • Egyptian carving of dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
  • Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
  • Acute pathologies, postpartum illness, Chinese lithograph
  • Treatment of acute pathologies, prepartum illness, lithograph
  • Acute pathologies, thoracic coagulation, Chinese lithograph
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