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Pragya Agarwal

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Joy: the story of IVF shows how women’s health and scientific contributions haven’t been taken seriously

Watching the Netflix film Joy has been a hugely emotional experience for me. The film is the story of the scientific endeavour to figure out in-vitro...

27.11.2024 7

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Pragya Agarwal

Joy: the story of IVF shows how women’s health and scientific contributions haven’t be taken seriously

Watching the Netflix film Joy has been a hugely emotional experience for me. The film is the story of the scientific endeavour to figure out in-vitro...

26.11.2024 5

The Conversation

Pragya Agarwal

Bad Sisters season two is a darker, more serious look at sisterhood

The second series of Bad Sisters starts in the dark of the night. Four women sit in a car at the edge of some cliffs, panicking, arguing, shouting at...

22.11.2024 10

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Pragya Agarwal

There is Light Somewhere at the Hayward Gallery: an emotional exploration of history and belonging

There is Light Somewhere, the title of the latest show by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery in London, is borrowed from a...

25.07.2024 5

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Pragya Agarwal

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood by Hettie Judah celebrates the craft and chaos of mother artists

In her new book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, art critic Hettie Judah shows that motherhood has played a significant role in the history of...

17.07.2024 5

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Pragya Agarwal

How The Bear sets up stereotypes of tough male and emotional female chefs – and then tears them down

This article contains spoilers for the second series of The Bear. The Michelin star chef Marco Pierre White said in 2019: “The real positive with...

08.07.2024 5

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Pragya Agarwal

Medieval women used informal social networks to share health problems and medical advice – just as we do today

In the medieval period, medical science was still dominated by the ancient writings of Hippocrates from the fifth century and Galen of Pergamon from...

07.03.2024 8

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Pragya Agarwal

Letters and embroidery allowed medieval women to express their ‘forbidden’ emotions

Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence. So much so that historian Johan Huizinga claimed: “Modern man has no idea of the...

15.02.2024 8

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Pragya Agarwal

Should I have children? Why society’s idealisation of motherhood benefits no one

Mothers – and non-mothers. Our language creates the falsehood that being with a child is a norm. Words like childless or childfree firmly place the...

04.01.2024 20

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Pragya Agarwal

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