Stories
- 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
What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- Article
Invisibility
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
DHSS: Report on Health and Social Subjects: Women in Medicine: Proceedings of a Conference organised by the DHSS 4-5 July
Date: 1975Reference: SA/MWF/G.58Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Subject women / Ann Oakley.
Oakley, Ann.Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
Subject women / Ann Oakley.
Oakley, Ann.Date: 1981