Common sense is a historical category - and none of our questions around sex and gender are really new
Category: womb
‘Trade’ books and ‘academic’ books – what’s that about?
I've been getting excited recently about the final stage before publication of my next book, Immaculate Forms, a history of women's bodies told through four parts: breasts, clitoris, hymen, womb. It's easy to remember the order of the chapters because it's alphabetical, but that wasn't why I did it this way: instead, I am going… Continue reading ‘Trade’ books and ‘academic’ books – what’s that about?
Baubo, or not, or what?
'Baubo' and the urge to tie otherwise puzzling physical objects to equally mysterious fragments of text...
Period pain and Artemis (from The Conversation UK)
Artemis is a new body suit for period pain – here’s why it’s named after a Greek goddess Helen King, The Open University A new body suit to control period pain is in the pipeline – and it’s called Artemis. Named after the Greek goddess of chastity, hunting, childbirth and the moon, it works by combining… Continue reading Period pain and Artemis (from The Conversation UK)
Vulvagate: why the words we use for our bodies matter
Is it OK to use 'vagina' to cover all the internal and external female sexual organs? 'Vulvagate' reminds us of a lost world of passages, gates and doors.
Mistaking histories 