Stories
- Article
The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
Catalogue
- Books
Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture : differential equations / edited by Sandra R. Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan.
Date: 1998- Books
Conjure Women / Afia Atakora.
Atakora, Afia.Date: 2020- Books
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Women and freedom in early America / edited by Larry D. Eldridge.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Aristotle on slaves and women / W.W. Fortenbaugh.
Fortenbaugh, William WDate: 1977- Books
Goddesses, whores, wives and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy.
Pomeroy, Sarah B.Date: 1994, ©1975