Tag: politics
‘Educated, attractive, charming when she wishes’.
Ros Parr takes a look back to the mid-twentieth century at the height of the career of Indian anti-colonial activist Viyaja Lakshmi Pandit.
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Adrienne Gerhäuser, Corinna Kawaters and the ‘Red Zora’
Katharina Karcher delves into the history of Red Zora, a German feminist group that claimed responsibility for forty-five arson attacks and bombings between the 1970s & 1990s.
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Rosemary Harris gives us a research-led creative take on the activism of Rosa May Billinghurst, a suffragette who would let nothing get in her way, including her own disability.
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Powerful then, dangerous now?
What makes a woman dangerous 1000 years after her death? Marianne Moen takes a feminist approach to the archaeology of the Viking Age.
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Letitia Youmans and the Temperance Movement in Canada
In 19th century Canada, the liquor trade’s greatest enemy turned out to be a very dangerous woman who unexpectedly found herself leading the campaign to control it.
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Feminist, subversive and a challenge to Big Tobacco
Do you know who the tobacco industry identified as one of the three most dangerous people in the world? Today we hear from Dr Judith Mackay, British medical doctor based in Hong Kong, and pioneering anti-tobacco campaigner.
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Dangerous woman?
Was Millicent Garrett Fawcett a dangerous woman? Certainly not, but her refusal to be thwarted and her sheer determination made her seem very dangerous indeed.
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Seeing powerful women in a new frame
Artist Satdeep Grewal’s exhibition reframes perceptions of women who have inhabited positions of power despite criticism or attacks based on gender or race.
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In her short story, Lucy Walters explores the idea and consequences of powerful women adopting traditionally male traits.
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