Stories
- Article
What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
- 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
Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Beware the wandering womb - painterly reflections of early gynecological theory / Laurinda S. Dixon.
Dixon, Laurinda S.Date: 1994- Videos
Wandering womb
Sen, DollyDate: 2022- Books
The wandering womb : a cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women / Lana Thompson ; foreword by Vern L. Bullough.
Thompson, Lana.Date: 1999- Books
The wandering womb and the peripheral penis : gender and the fertile body in late medieval infertility treatises / by Amy Lindgren.
Lindgren, Amy.Date: 2005- Books
Unwell women : a journey through medicine and myth in a man-made world / Elinor Cleghorn.
Cleghorn, ElinorDate: 2022