Stories
- 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.
- Article
Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Medical Women's Federation: lecture notes on the history of women in medicine', typescript
Reference: SA/MWF/C.7/3Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Women and families : an oral history, 1940-1970 / Elizabeth Roberts.
Roberts, Elizabeth, 1936-Date: 1995- Books
Women's voices : an oral history of women's health in Northern Ireland (1900-90) / National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), Women's Committee, Northern Ireland ; Mary Ferris, Anna McGonigle, Patricia McKeown, Theresa Moriarty, Marie Mulholland.
Date: 1992- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Pioneers: C Beach, E Bentham, E Blackwell, H Boyle
Date: Late 19th century-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.2Part of: Medical Women's Federation