Month: July 2016
On resisting gendered hierarchies of practice in the art world
Alana Tyson shares her response to the debasement of ‘feminine’ domestic crafts, an attitude which continues to marginalise many women in the art world.
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A dangerously undomesticated Roman wife
Suzanne Dixon shows us the hostile and misogynist historical tradition against Fulvia – perhaps most commonly known today as the wife of Roman general Mark Antony.
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‘Enemy of the Soviet People’
Remembering poet Anna Akhmatova, often thought of as Russia’s ‘Cassandra’ through the violent days of Revolution and even bloodier years of Sovietisation.
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‘People were always asking women if they were lost when they were merely thinking. A man with a map is studying it; a woman with the same stance is confused.’ Mel Evan’s creative piece examines women alone.
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Katie Munnick recounts her personal experience with midwifery, wondering if ‘danger might be in the eye of the beholder’ with regards women’s birthing choices.
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Nudes in the Academy
Barbara Havelková discusses issues of voice, speech and silencing surrounding a 2015 exhibition of female nudes in the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
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Lady Franklin and Kate Rae had a lot in common: both had husbands who went exploring in the Arctic. But that may have been where the similarities ended…
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Women prophets of the Ancient Mediterranean
What’s more dangerous than a woman who speaks for God? Jill Marshall delves into the world of the Ancient Mediterranean and its women prophets.
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…at the Bottom Rung
Gemma Flynn reflects on the ups and downs of being a comedian ‘doing feminism at the coal face’ and the strength it takes to resist toning herself down.
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