Stories
- 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.
- Article
Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
- 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
Wonder Woman’s wonder women
Discover more about the women who inspired an icon: Wonder Woman’s story of bondage, bracelets and birth control.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Women and the politics of military confrontation : Palestinian and Israeli gendered narratives of dislocation / edited by Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin.
Date: 2004- Books
Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.
Bellafaire, Judith, 1954-Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Endell Street : the trailblazing women who ran World War One's most remarkable military hospital / Wendy Moore.
Moore, Wendy, 1952-Date: 2020- Ephemera
- Online
Appeal for funds : at the request of the Serbian government the London committees are providing two new field hospitals & a motor transport section to accompany the Serbian division in Russia / London Units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.)
Date: [1916?]- Books
Women at war / edited by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH and Anne L. Naclerio, MD, MPH.
Date: [2015]
Events
- Discussion
Stories of Women and Change
Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Past
Part of On Medicine and Change
- Discussion
Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland
Online
Available to watch
Part of Exploring Research
- Auto-captioned
- Seminar
Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour
Viewing Room
Past
Part of Exploring Research