Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach The last post outlined two common menstrual myths… One about the moon having an influence over the menstrual cycle, another about
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 1)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach (Wiki-commons) Building on last month’s blog about the way in which PMS is often (wrongly) presented as something affecting ‘all women’,
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Not all women; understanding biological variation
This month’s blog tries to unpick a major myth about the female body, and how it affects the way in which clinical research is understood by the public, media, and
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Women’s right to reason… (Part 3)
Part 1 of this 3-part blog post discussed the way in which medical theories tend to be highly reflective of their particular cultural, and historical context. In part 2, we
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Women’s right to reason… (Part 2)
Previous blogs have looked at the way in which the female reproductive system (typically the womb– or the menstrual cycle by association), has been used against women in order to justify gender inequality. The second
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