Stories
- In pictures
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
Catalogue
- Books
Women and war in antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith.
Date: 2015- Books
Women, sexuality, and war / Philomena Goodman.
Goodman, Philomena, 1957-Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Question of Women Doctors' services in time of war: correspondence
Date: 1939Reference: SA/MWF/C.178Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.
Bellafaire, Judith, 1954-Date: [2009], ©2009- Ephemera
Certificate of application for war service bar / Joint Women's V.A.D. Dept.
Great Britain. War Office. Joint Women's V.A.D. Department.Date: [1917?]