Month: March 2016
The contentious legacy of Brenda Fassie, South Africa’s pop princess
Chisomo Kalinga explores the life and career of Brenda Fassie, against a backdrop of traditional values and stereotypes of black female sexuality.
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Catherine Wilson: a dangerous woman in UK Parliament
How were women treated in early 20th century UK Parliament? Very differently to men. Catherine Wilson decided to challenge that in a subversive way: disguise herself.
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On independent thinking and honouring women’s career priorities in the 21st century
Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of think tank New America, uses the lens of time-travel to illuminate the challenges women face–and the threats they pose–in today’s economy.
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A Women’s Aid group contributes a poem of strength and support
The women who contributed today’s post have been victims of domestic abuse and have been supported by Women’s Aid East and Midlothian (Scotland, UK). The poem is their collective work, around the Dangerous Women Project’s question: ‘what does it mean to be a dangerous woman?’
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‘Lucretia Borgia or only a boarding school miss’?
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
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How can it be ‘dangerous’ for women to ask for what they want?
Is it not time that women have proper choices about how and when they have their baby? To decide for their own and their baby’s individual circumstances?
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Women in Black and the danger in peaceful protest
Since 2003, the Edinburgh chapter of international peace initiative Women in Black (WIB) have stood silent vigil from 1-2pm every Saturday without exception on Princes Street outside Register House. Here, the group explores the idea of danger in peaceful protest.
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A Social Paradox: The Unusual Life of Miss Kate Ward
Miss Ward provided a home to unwanted, abandoned and otherwise homeless dogs. It might seem that Miss Ward was an asset to the town, so what was it that made her a dangerous woman?
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The struggle for women’s rights in Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexican activist Verónica Cruz Sánchez explains how she came to be perceived a dangerous woman, and why she embraces her dangerous identity in defense of human rights.
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