Stories
- Comic
Policing women’s clothing
It’s time to stop policing what women wear.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 4, Women, drugs and HIV / Positively Women and Immunity.
Date: 1989
- Ephemera
- Online
Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 4, Women, drugs and HIV / Positively Women and Immunity.
Date: 1990
- Ephemera
- Online
Women and AIDS / Health Education Authority.
Date: 1990
- Ephemera
- Online
Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women and Immunity.
Date: 1989- Books
Women & the welfare state / Elizabeth Wilson.
Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-Date: 1977
Events
- Discussion
Stories of Women and Change
Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Past
Part of On Medicine and Change
- Discussion
Recipes for Early Modern Beauty
Online
Available to watch
Part of Exploring Research
- Captioned (online)
- Discussion
Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland
Online
Available to watch
Part of Exploring Research
- Auto-captioned