Agnes Arnold-Forster – NOTCHES

Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster

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A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife ; symbolising science's fight against cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
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“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.

Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014

Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.

"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self

"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body

Some nineteenth-century British physicians looked towards physical embodiments of femaleness for explanations for breast cancer.

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ

Both anti-discrimination and pro-gay activists appeal to features of a pre-colonial past.