An Ongoing Journey

How have historical inequalities and political struggles impacted on the reproductive rights, mental health, and bodily autonomy of women over the last two centuries?

An Ongoing Journey shines a light on topics regarding women’s health, in particular around reproductive and mental health, and takes you through some of the medical, political and social changes women have experienced.

The exhibition also highlights positive changes and improvements in the understanding of women’s health, such as the growing awareness and treatments of health conditions exclusively experienced by women.

This online exhibition is curated by a group of four MA students from the University of Leeds using the Wellcome Collection.

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An Ongoing Journey is part of a wider series of online exhibitions curated by Art Gallery and Museum Studies and Arts Management and Heritage MA students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, as part of an Interpretations course module.

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Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857. Reference: 20059i. Licence: Public Domain Mark.