Month: May 2016
Lilah Grace Canevaro examines how women in Homeric epic used objects and technology as a dangerous negotiation of agency within the gender constraints of their time.
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Higher education, social work, and a career as a dangerous woman
Another senior academic woman – Viv Cree – shares her history of ‘dangerousness’ from the 1970s until the present day.
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A feminist right?
Sunayana Bhargava reflects on what it means for women to loiter – ‘as’ danger or ‘in’ danger – in physical or digital spaces.
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Bridle/Bridal Mismanagement in Early Modern Drama
Through the lens of seventeenth century horsemanship, Jemima Hubberstey explores the subversive potential for a dangerous woman, like a spirited horse, to resist and destabilise the patriarchal order.
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Columnist Mireya coaches 1950s Mexican immigrant women on dating, working and belonging
Soledad Quartucci takes us back to the southwest U.S. of the 1950s, when advice columnist Mireya was both a lifeline to first generation Mexican Americans and a danger to traditional values.
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Elisabet Ney’s final sculpture
With her short story ‘Lady Macbeth’, Carly Brown transports us to the final years of 19th century feminist sculptor Elisabet Ney.
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Lady Florence Dixie and the dangerous women of Scottish women’s football
Margot McCuaig pays tribute to the women throughout history who have organised and played women’s football in Scotland in the face of condescension, opposition and even legal bans.
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Liubov Popova, Constructivism and politics as an artform
Sotiria Grek reflects on the role of women artists–with a focus on Liubov Popova–in the Russian avant-garde movement.
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Editorial: The First Fifty
We take a moment to catch up on the variety and quality we’ve seen in the Dangerous Women Project posts to date, and look at what’s in store for the future.
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