Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

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The Welsh Government's Period Action Plan, which was sent out for consultation earlier this year, says “person who menstruates” will be the most frequently used phrase to describe who has periods, in the document. An NHS Digital spokesperson said in a statement that the health service keeps webpages “under continual review to ensure they use language that is inclusive, respectful and relevant to the people reading it”. A motorbike fanatic, she got a taste for engineering as a girl, taking apart motorbike engines in her back garden. For women, one of the most important developments was the National Health Service Act of 1948, which guaranteed universal health care. As a busy person, I don’t have a lot of time for dry-as-dust dreary tomes, so I wanted to make my own history book as accessible and entertaining as possible.

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We are Bloody Brilliant, a source of knowledge, support, information and empowerment for women, girls and people who have periods.As a perfectionist, sometimes I need to quit while I’m ahead, and enjoy the almost-but-not-quite-perfect moment! Conversely, there are people who identify as genders other than women, such as trans men, intersex and non-binary people who also menstruate.

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You can get more health news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here. There is a rather brilliant tale of the first woman who ever voted, which came about by her being added to the electoral roll by mistake (her vote was later voided).And you’ll see how the seeds of dissatisfaction sown in the 1940s bloomed into the sexual revolution of the 1960s, which helped secure the freedoms so many women enjoy today. A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn't. Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention' is available in paperback from Waterstones (po. The 1997 Labour influx of female MPs – or “ Blair’s babes”, as they became known, thanks chiefly to the Daily Mail – is analysed.

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Through her story we’ll explore the reinforcement of ‘women’s work’ as an established idea during the 1960s, and meet the women who were fighting back. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. By 1920, contraception was readily available, and on March 18, 1921, Stopes opened a Mother’s Clinic in north London, offering family planning advice and cervical caps to all.The Bloody Brilliant campaign has said it will be making changes to its materials following widespread criticism of its decision not to use the words women or girls. We want to empower girls and young people that have periods as wellall those around them to be period proud, so join the movement and let's normalise periods together.

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One such reform was the National Insurance Act of 1946, which introduced improvements to social security. Through her story we’ll explore immigration in the late 1940s and the Windrush generation; the Notting Hill riots; and how a handful of mostly female activists like Pearl Prescod and Amy Ashwood Garvey rallied round her, determined to promote both black resistance and, ultimately, some semblance of cross-cultural harmony. Finding out what period products work for you,and creating your ownself-care routine is all part of getting to know your period. Though a work of gothic fiction, Maria’s fate was a sad reality for many women in Britain’s Georgian and Victorian eras. The language used within this Action Plan is deliberately broad as the plan aims to include all who menstruate.

You’ll learn how – within a matter of decades – women went from being the property of men to independent citizens with a vote and control over their bodies. The Welsh Government said the PHSE curriculum guidance preceding the RSE code also did not make reference to male and female. It was Beatrice Shilling and her Rolls-Royce team who developed a simple brass restrictor that would solve the problem. The topic of motherhood itself is looked at thoroughly, including particular prejudices: Clare Short feared her career as an MP “would be over” when it became public in 1993 that she had put up for adoption the son she had as a 17-year-old.