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Month: May 2016

Human Rights and Dangerous Women

Comments from a Dangerous Woman on dangerous women

21st May 201631st May 2016

In this extract from the Ruth Adler Lecture 2016, Shami Chakrabarti reflects on what it was like to be branded ‘the most dangerous woman’ in Britain, and then highlights some of the most important campaigners for human rights in the UK today. Continue reading

Dagmar Šimková

Branded a threat to communism

20th May 201630th May 2016

Kelly Hignett highlights the story of Dagmar Šimková, imprisoned in Czechoslovakia for alleged anti-communist activities in the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading

The Tally

19th May 201618th May 2016

Susanna Crossman’s short story ‘The Tally’ explores a woman’s journey to seek vengeance. Continue reading

Dangerous Looks

Looks are a danger

18th May 201617th May 2016

Jelena Džankić considers the implications of being a tall academic woman and reaches the conclusion that looks can be dangerous Continue reading

She’s dangerous!

17th May 201617th May 2016

Eishar Sarkar quizzes family and friends from Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on what they think it means to be a dangerous woman. Continue reading

Woolf’s Society of Authors

Where dangerous women swim

16th May 201614th May 2016

Victoria Leslie explores the connection between women and water–physical and metaphorical–in myth, history and the writing of Virginia Woolf. Continue reading

Horsehead Nebula Speaks

…of Williamina Fleming

15th May 201613th May 2016

On the birth date of Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming, we present a poem in memoriam from Gerda Stevenson. Continue reading

Flora Tristan

Utopian socialist. Dangerous woman?

14th May 201614th May 2016

Jelena Vasiljević draws our attention to the life and work of Flora Tristan, 19th century pioneer of feminism and socialism. Continue reading

dangerous women in post-independence Ireland

‘worst of the worst’

What did it mean to be a ‘dangerous woman’ in post-Independence Ireland?

13th May 201613th May 2016

Lynsey Black explores the convictions and prejudices that could lead to a woman finding herself with the heaviest of sentences in post-Independence Ireland. Continue reading

Silvery Tay Haired Women

Giving greater voice and visibility to older women

12th May 201614th May 2016

Kate Clayton shares the story of the Silvery Tay-haired project, drawing public attention to the social and political issues entwined with women’s hair colour and the ageing process. Continue reading