Stories
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
- 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.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
History 1 - Pioneers
Date: Late 19th century-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.1-5Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
London Association - History to 1969
Date: 1969Reference: SA/MWF/C.122Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
'Women in Medicine', typescript, 'Leeds - Boots' Pharmacists' Association' 9 Feb 1950
Date: 1950Reference: SA/MWF/C.7/1Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Flyer for Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, A History of Women in Medicine, 1938
Date: 1938Reference: SA/MWF/C.9/6Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
History 3 - Woman in Medicine: Various Papers
Date: 1910-1980Reference: SA/MWF/C.7-9Part of: Medical Women's Federation