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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men

The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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’No you’re not’ – a portrait of autistic women

In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.

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  • Food being served by charitable ladies to poor women in Paris. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for working women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for professional women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • British Red Cross Hospital, Turin: women who work in the laundry. Photograph, c. 1918.
  • Textiles: two women in a room, seated at work-tables making bobbin-lace. Engraving.
  • Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.
  • The work of medical women in India / by Margaret I. Balfour ... and Ruth Young ... with a foreword by Dame Mary Scharlieb.
  • The female sign incorporating the faces of five women who work in the AIDS field with a list of list of HIV-related conditions common in women by the Maricopa Area Health Education Center. Colour lithograph by Jeff Dorgay and Creative Syndicate.
  • Djibouti: involvement of women in computer work, agriculture, healthcare and child care, as a key to personal and national development, leading to health for women. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and the World Health Organization, ca. 2002.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
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