March 8th is International Women’s Day, and 2018 marks 100 years since the UK Parliament passed a law which allowed the first women (property owners over the age of 30),
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Women’s right to reason… (Part 1)
History/ hystery and No shame.
Archives for History/ hystery
The great unknown; medicines and the menstrual cycle
In last week’s post about the importance of tracking health symptoms over the course of the menstrual cycle, I briefly mentioned the fact that most medicines have only been tested on
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Let’s talk about sex… And hormones.
With a name like ‘Menstrual Matters’, you can perhaps be forgiven for imagining that this resource is relevant for people with female reproductive anatomy, only. However, although a person’s sex
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A womb of one’s own… Part three.
This is the last in a series of three blog posts taking an historical look at the ways in which the womb has long been regarded as the defining part
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Anatomy, History/ hystery and No shame.
A womb of one’s own… Part two.
This series of three blog posts takes an historical look at the ways in which the womb has long been regarded as the defining part of a (cisgender) woman’s body,
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Anatomy, History/ hystery and No shame.
