An interactive presentation with cards for players to examine witch folklore across different cultures, past and present.

Projected six-volume set of encyclopedia on the "indigenous medical wisdom in India known as Ayurveda.

This text documents and explains the epidemic of violence against women in labour rooms across the country, with additional citations and links to examples.

An old radical feminist text, makes some interesting arguments for the abolishing of gender altogether and the outsourcing or reproduction as the only way to achieve true gender equality. Dated now, but interesting from a historical perspective.

The text is attributed to sage Bharata Muni, and its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE. The subjects covered by the treatise include dramatic composition, structure of a play and the construction of a stage to host it, genres of acting, body movements, make up and costumes, role and goals of an art director, the musical scales, musical instruments and the integration of music with art performance

An essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment, rooted in witch hunters and the rise of capitalism.

This book narrates, through extensive research, the way in which Brahmin 'reformers' in South India used the invention of contraception to defend child marriage, and attempt social engineering based on caste and class. This was in stark contrast to the more emancipated understanding of women's relationship to contraception in the Self-respect movement of the time.

Forensic Medicine is taught in the second year of MBBS degree. This textbook by Nagesh Kumar Rao is used as the default textbook for this subject. Over 40 chapters, it aims to cover the recent developments in the field of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, as well as covering topics on clinical forensic medicine and medical jurisprudence.

This book provides evidence of early Ayurvedic conceptions of the female body. Specifically interesting are the explanations and guidance for menstruation, procreation and sexual intercourse.

Funny, wise, birlliant, this article cites textbooks from across the world to show us how language, at such a fundamental level, reinforces ridiculous gender stereotypes, and affects the most basic understandings that we have about human beings and human bodies.

This article explains how women in Britain were able to push their way into the medical system through an orientalist argument that Indian women needed female physicians to attend to them. Fascinating nuances of how gender, colonialsm and race politics intersect within medicine.

‘DC Dutta’s Textbook for Obstetrics’ presents a comprehensive study of obstetrics with proper theoretical elaboration along with well-defined pictorial illustration in full colour. It is divided into 42 chapters, including screening and diagnosis, prenatal genetic counselling, MR images, Doppler studies, data graphs, microphotographs and laparoscopic images among others.

This article analyses the current level of gender sensitivity in the textbooks being used for undergraduate medical training,

Beautifully designed and explained in simple language, a quick primer for medical students and professionals on how to provide safe abortions, advocate for abortion rights and understand the nuances of this issue in the Indian and Asian context.

This article explains how the most commonly used position for childbirth actually leads to more pain, more injury and more dangers for both birther and baby. It also documents the history of this position, as well as its misogynist origins that have nothing to do with science at all.

OB-GYN Jen Gunter, has a no-nonsense writing style and uses her social emdia presence to myth-bust modern trends around health and wellness. The book works primarily to debunk myths and give vulva-owners accurate, straightforward, helpful understandings of their own bodies.

From hysteria to pre-menstrual dysphoric disordar and now borderline personality disorder, a really thought-provoking article on how misogyny infects psychiatry and the study of the mind.

Gives an overview of medical abortion – common procedures, risks involved, side effects and other practical information.

Chalker is a sexologist and explores vividly and in a really fun way the gaps in our understanding of the female orgasm and the clitoris itself. Slightly dated now, but still a quick, enjoyable read.

A first-person account of living with vaginismus within the British medical system.

In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, and traces the journey from the 'wandering womb' of ancient Greece, the rise of witch trials in Medieval Europe, through the dawn of Hysteria, to modern day understandings of autoimmune diseases, the menopause and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy - and drawing on her own experience of un-diagnosed Lupus disease - this is a ground-breaking and timely exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it.