A marriage ends unexpectedly and a woman realises that all she worked for meant denying her self and surpressing her true identity.
- Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
Et si l’Odyssée était aussi un atlas ? Pendant des siècles, des érudits ont tenté d’identifier les escales d’Ulysse sur les rivages de la Méditerranée, brouillant sans cesse la frontière entre histoire, géographie et mythologie.
Attempts to transpose the locations of The Odyssey accurately to modern maps have proved difficult.
For Mother’s Day, we asked five experts to share their favourite painting of a mother or maternal figure.
Thirteen artists with ancestral lands in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean are subverting the role drawing has played in conquest and colonialism.
Embryologist Jean Purdy suffered from endometriosis and helped pioneer IVF.
The sisters are still very close, cloyingly so at times, always in each other’s houses, lives and pockets.
A sculpture of Harriet Tubman dominates much of the opening room, questioning our idea of who gets to be commemorated.
Acts of Creation is an incisive look at over 100 women artists who have created art representing their lived experiences of mothering and care-giving, from joy and grief to ambivalence.
Carmen’s emotions often get the best of him while the women around him are left to keep things going.
The Distaff Gospels is a collection of advice around pregnancy, childbirth and health. It was shared between French women while spinning flax.
While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story.
I have wondered if women are really free to make truly autonomous reproductive decisions.
Rape myths and unconscious biases often see juries and police officers disbelieve women who come forward with accusations of sexual assault.
Ultimately, our brains are lazy and it takes a lot of cognitive effort to change the script and these shortcuts that we have already built up.
Ageism is pervasive and these women are still exceptions in society.
We need to understand our brains to achieve true change.
Procrastination is linked to a preference for the status quo.
Women have to take on more unpaid labour – and manage their emotional response to this extra work.
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