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Wonder Woman’s wonder women

Discover more about the women who inspired an icon: Wonder Woman’s story of bondage, bracelets and birth control.

  • 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.

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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men

The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.

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’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.

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  • Working tOgether May be thE aNswer / Women's HIV Forum.
  • Working tOgether May be thE aNswer / Women's HIV Forum.
  • World War One: women working in a factory
  • An open letter to the planning committees of the International conference on AIDS : AIDS is a women's issue / International Working Group on Women and AIDS.
  • An open letter to the planning committees of the International conference on AIDS : AIDS is a women's issue / International Working Group on Women and AIDS.
  • Two women are working at large looms. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.
  • Men and women working at a variety of trades. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, two women working at a loom. Engraving.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for working women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
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