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Women - History

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Feminism
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Images from the collections

Images about Women - History

1 image from works
  • The female husband, or, A circumstantial account of an extraordinary affair which happened at Poplar / by a correspondent.

Works from the collections

154 works

    • Books

    The teeming brothel : sex acts, desires, and sexual identities in the United States, 1870-1940 / by Heather Lee Miller.

    Miller, Heather Lee, 1969- | Date: 2002
    • Books

    Peg Plunkett : memoirs of a whore / Julie Peakman.

    Peakman, Julie, 1957- | Date: 2015
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    Female hospitallers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Myra Struckmeyer.

    Struckmeyer, Myra. | Date: 2006
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    "Biological living" : the redemption of women and America through healthy living, dress, and eugenics / by Kathleen Lynne Norman.

    Norman, Kathleen Lynne. | Date: [2000], ©2000
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    "With frenzied thoughts beset..." : depictions of female madness on the nineteenth-century English stage / by Susan M. Doran.

    Doran, Susan M. (Susan Margaret), 1953- | Date: 2001

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19th-20th centuries
Feminism - History
United Kingdom
United States
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Gender Identity
England
Sex - History
Ancient

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