L’erba delle donne
This book contains eleven studies on the history of women in the defense of health, demonstrating how, even if the ruling class has historically used…
Accabadora
In 2009, Sardinian writer Michela Murgia, -an extremely original writer and often politically provocative figure, with a sustained commitment to women’s issues and to the…
The Midwives of Seventeenth-century London
Another book arrived by post for the Midwif collection, The Midwives of Seventeenth-century London by Doreen Evenden. Quickly flipping through, I noticed two appendices which…
Arrived by post today
“Activist Liv Strömquist riffs on outrageous obsessions with menstruation and genitalia”
Today’s arrival by post, Plants That Kill
Looking forward to reading this book by Elizabeth A. Dauncey and Sonny Larsson, Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants.
Witches Midwives and Nurses
Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history. They were abortionists, nurses and counsellors. they were pharmacists, cultivating…
Fuller,T. 1739. Pharmacopoeia Domestica: or, The Family Dispensatory, with Remarks on the Compositions, and an Explanation of their Virtues, by the late Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Riddle,J. 1997. Eve’s Herbs. A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Harvard University Press.
Shorter,E. 1982. A History of Women’s Bodies. Allen Lane.Strömquist,L. 2018. Fruit of Knowledge. The Vulva vs The Patriarchy. Virago.