Stories
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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
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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.
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Crones
Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.
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Invisibility
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
Catalogue
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Married life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 / Elisabeth Van Houts.
Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C.Date: 2019- Books
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Letters on the intellectual and moral character of women : on the station for which they are destined, on the characters they are qualified to sustain, and on the duties they are required to discharge, both in private and social life / addressed to the ladies of Great Britain by the author of "An essay on original genius", and of "The history of Rhedi, the hermit of Mount Ararat".
Date: 1807- Books
The Hottentot Venus : the life and death of Saartjie Baartman : born 1789 - buried 2002 / Rachel Holmes.
Holmes, Rachel.Date: 2007- Student dissertations
Visions of healthy mothers and beautiful babies : motherhood, childhood, and the Women's Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in south India, c. 1919 - 1939 / Rebecca Jane Williams.
Williams, Rebecca Jane.Date: 2008- Books
A life force in life science : discovering Ida MacLean / Penny Freedman.
Freedman, PenelopeDate: 2020