Dr Elinor Cleghorn
@elinorcleghorn
Writer; Dr; feminism; medical history. Author of UNWELL WOMEN out now with @wnbooks (UK) and @DuttonBooks (US) Represented by @EmF1nn at @CWAgencyUK she/her
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19-01-2009 20:59:09
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Sending a flare up for medical historians or anyone who knows anything about homeopathic terminology. I’m struggling to decode a diagnosis given in the late 19th century. PLEASE help.
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris , any thoughts?
In honour of #InternationalWomensDay we're highlighting some of our favourite books re-centring women's lives in the historical and literary canon; books documenting thoughts, preoccupations, ideas and struggles across the centuries. Vital, urgent and endlessly fascinating.
📚 OctoberBooks have always been amazing supporters of WW and it's great to see titles from WW speakers Dr Elinor Cleghorn tired Sorcha Amy Thomson featured in their #IWD2024 window display! 💜💜💜
(Ghostly reflection is me 👻)
If you're ready for a change, a step up, a return to work - consider applying for this amazing job in our team. Yes, it's my job so I'm biased. Looking for the perfect custodian while I go and have baby 3 😮 Can be based in London or Sheffield! #jobsinpublishing
🍉Save the date🍉 #valentines4palestine
On 14th Feb we'll be joining indie bookshops nationwide in raising money for writers in Gaza.
More information (and a chance to donate) here:
gofundme.com/f/valentines4p…
Currently reading Dr Elinor Cleghorn's Unwell Women. It's brilliant, heartbreaking, infuriating. I'm recommending it to everybody I know.
Just started BBC Radio 4's podcast 'The Child' with India Rakusen. Have others been listening?
Historian Dr Elinor Cleghorn on E1: 'the odd relationship I had to tastes or smells that millenia ago, women were experiencing these exact same sensations'.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
The Novel Prize opens for submissions from 1 April–1 June. The winner receives $10,000 & simultaneous publication with us in the UK, New Directions in the US & Giramondo Publishing in Australia. More details here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/novel-p…
Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay these two outstandingly riveting autoethnographic-academic books by Prof. Pragya Agarwal & Dr Elinor Cleghorn is that I am willingly & happily foregoing the few hours of sleep my toddler allows me to read them as part of this week’s research! ❤️
📣 NEW | What are the true roots of the patriarchy?
Join award-winning British science journalist Angela Saini in conversation with Dr Elinor Cleghorn to celebrate the paperback release of her ground-breaking book #ThePatriarchs .
📝 Register FREE: fane.co.uk/angela-saini
Tune into Dr Elinor Cleghorn's podcast episode with Klinisch Relevant as she talks through women's role in medical history and her book ‘Unwell Women' 📻
Emma Finn
So many incredible women and their work have progressed the conversation around sex and gender in medical research in the UK, including Caroline Criado Perez Dr Elinor Cleghorn Leah Hazard Viki Male
It was such a privilege to read INTERVALS by Marianne Brooker early - I adored this book, which is coming soon with Fitzcarraldo Editions and available to pre-order now 💙
Love to see this almost 18 months after paperback publication 🌺 so proud of Dr Elinor Cleghorn and how many people your brilliant, important book continues to reach