…so why don’t more journalists do it? And why on earth do so many make sweeping assertions outside their area of expert knowledge? In a fairly scathing review of Elizabeth, The Golden Age, a reviewer at Time Magazine says: But… Read More ›
books & writing
literature, genre, fan-fic, blogging, graphic novels, web-comics etc etc
Calling for votes
Anyone want some more Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? The choices are here. Requests made previously have included: Margie in Austin, Texas: “The Change of Life, or Menopause”. Callie & kristi: “Sex Physiology and Hygiene” PortlyDyke: “On The Threshold of… Read More ›
Ignoring imprisonment and institutionalisation
As long as it’s only women in the sex industry being exploited and abused, that is. There’s two excellent posts around on legalised prostitution at the moment, examining the way that legalisation seems to have offered an extra layer of… Read More ›
“Let us remember that we are not our own.”
And now, the last of the “Dress and Its Relation to Health” chapter from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, 1905. The previous parts of this chapter are here, here, and here. In which we consider women’s pro-corset angst and… Read More ›
Rising damp of the womb: more Ladies’ Handbook
Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, and “So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.” I bring you part 3 of “Dress and… Read More ›
“So in studying the human figure we must have a standard of grace and beauty with which to compare the abnormal figure.”
Further to “Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve”, here comes part 2 of “Dress and its Relation to Health”, from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, Melbourne, 1905. ~~~ What can it be then that causes us to fall… Read More ›
Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve
More Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment for you! My original post is here, in which you are treated to a few sage words on choosing a mate, a woman’s role, and how to prepare for a wedding demurely and chastely…. Read More ›
“The sensible maiden will, like the wise virgin, fill her lamp with oil before the bridegroom cometh.”
Here’s my original post introducing the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment. Thanks for all your chapter requests! I offered you a glimpse of Chapter One: here’s the whole thing, for your edification, chortleification, and irritation. The one thing that… Read More ›
“Strange emotions set the young heart throbbing and mayhap seeking for a mate.”
More on Vitalogy later; for now, I thought I’d introduce you to the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, which I’ll feature more excerpts from as time goes on. (Note the new tag – “old books”). The Ladies’ Handbook was published… Read More ›
Satan’s Bed
As promised to la doctorita in this thread: the dangers of Secret Vice, or Self-Pollution. Published in Chicago by the “Vitalogy Association” in 1926 is the comprehensive home health encyclopaedia, “Vitalogy”, by E. H. Ruddock. The encyclopedia covers everything under… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 