Month: April 2016
Insight into one of ‘The Bletchley Girls’
In our second post for Edinburgh Spy Week, Tessa Dunlop shares the time she spent with Rozanne Colchester, one of the many women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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Breaking the mould as the first female Director General of MI5
Dame Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of UK intelligence service MI5. Today, she recalls changing perceptions of her as a ‘dangerous woman’.
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Questioning the motivations behind FGM
Writer and former journalist Jean Rafferty considers the relationship between women’s sexuality and the power structures behind the practice of FGM.
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A dangerous girl?
Nina Fischer explores how Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, now a figurehead in the Nabi Saleh anti-Occupation marches, presents challenges across the political spectrum.
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What if Holloway Prison could reflect on its closure?
If these walls could talk? Eithne Cullen imagines what Holloway Prison would have to say about the announcement of its closure in 2015, after more than a century of housing some of the UK’s most notable female prisoners.
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A woman of many dangers?
Artist, intelligence analyst, research psychologist, science fiction writer under a male pseudonym… Alexandra Pierce looks at the many facets of Alice.
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What does it mean to be a truly dangerous woman, in this dangerous world?
‘A woman becomes dangerous when she threatens the status quo… when she points out what is hiding in plain sight.’ Writer and broadcaster Bidisha reflects on the central question of the Dangerous Women Project: What does it mean to be a dangerous woman?
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How my mother taught me about bravery, identity and human rights
For barrister Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright, a dangerous woman is a woman who helps others to find their identity, especially when that does not conform to convention.
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Their dangerous legacy in the post-Yugoslav space
The contribution of ‘partizanke’, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe. Here, Chiara Bonfiglioli explores the agency of these women and the reverberations of their actions to the present day.
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