Explore the life of Naomi Mitchison through objects from the Glasgow Women’s Library Archive and Museum collections.
Online Exhibitions
Online exhibitions featuring material from our collections and/or based on live exhibitions held at GWL
When we are not seen, heard or recognised
By speaking out, we expose inequalities and increase mutual understanding to fight discrimination and stigma. The majority of the objects are by activists which articulate the multiple inequalities that women […]
When we do not have equal access to health care
Women consistently report negative experiences of the health care system. Poor services, or a lack of services at all, are the result of the benevolent moral and political policing, and medicalisation […]
When society assigns us roles based on aspects of our identity
Women are presented with images and objects which reflect society’s expectations of our behaviour.
When we lack control over how we are represented
Women’s creative practice is treated entirely differently to men’s.
When we are not treated equally by the law and the state
Inequality is experienced through a lack of: inclusion in the political process, representation, access to healthcare, control over reproduction, equal treatment in the criminal justice system.