Stories
- 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
Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
- Photo story
’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.
- Article
Don’t call me a strong Black woman
Her upbringing taught Jaydee Seaforth that she could never show pain or weakness, even when her internal distress was extreme. Find out how she learned to listen to her body.
Catalogue
- Books
Women and opiate addiction : a European perspective / authors : Paulo Stocco [and 8 others] ; collaborators : Horst Broemer [and 6 others].
Stocco, PauloDate: [date of publication unknown]- Books
Breeders for race & nation : women and fascism in Britain today / [Women and Fascism Study Group: Janet Batsleer, Lucy Bland, Trisha McCabe, Richard Marlen and Robin Wilson].
Women and Fascism Study GroupDate: [1979?]- Books
All the weight of our dreams : on living racialized autism / edited by Lydia X.Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu.
Date: [2017]- Books
The healing connection : how women form relationships in therapy and in life / Jean Baker Miller, Irene Pierce Stiver.
Miller, Jean BakerDate: [1997]- Books
- Online
The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1698