Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism considered how artists and activists have addressed and challenged experiences of care, health, education, housing and home life. This online exhibition represents the portion of Life Support by artist Olivia Plender, who was commissioned for this project by GWL.
Collection: Health
Well Woman – A Guide to Women’s Health
An educational booklet for women about their health needs. It covers a range of topics from self care, sexual organs, mental health, birth control, menopause and STDs.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
A booklet looking at the history of medical practice. This booklet delves into the suppression of female healers in the European witch hunts, and how that shapes the sexism in the current medical system.
Power Makes Us Sick Issue #3
This publication “seeks to understand the ways that our mental, physical, and social health is impacted by inbalances in, and abuses of power.”
Power Makes Us Sick, Issue #1
This publication “seeks to understand the ways that our mental, physical, and social health is impacted by inbalances in, and abuses of power.”
Living with The Menopause – Your Questions Answered
An educational booklet about menopause.
WHIC: The Newsletter, No. 5
Volume 5 of The Newsletter, published by the Women’s Health Information Centre.
Women and Medical Practice
A single page flyer about WAMP, a Women’s Health Information and Counselling Service in Tottenham.
WHIC: The Newsletter, No. 7 – Special Black Women & Health Edition
A special edition of The Newsletter, produced by the Women’s Health Information Centre, that discusses how racism affects Black women’s health.
Complaints and Disorders – The Sexual Politics of Sickness
A pamphlet about the social role of medicine and how women were treated in the medical system in the 20th century.