Month: November 2016
Editorial: 250 days of dangerousness
We can’t believe it’s really here – we’re at 250 posts, which means that, at the end of this month, there will be less than 100 to go to the finish line! Thank you soContinue reading
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Dangerous Women and the Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylum
Cara Dobbing examines the difference between mental illness and being perceived a dangerous woman in a nineteenth century lunatic asylum.
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Nation of brothers with late arriving sisters
Did you know women in Switzerland were only granted the vote in 1971? Before that, women’s suffrage was considered a dangerous idea, as Stefanie Kurt explains.
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Swati Ali gives us insight into the dangerous women of her family over several generations of life in India.
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Mess with them at your peril.
Sharon Blackie is a writer with a PhD in behavioural neuroscience from the University of London, an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University, and she is completing an Ma in Celtic Studies atContinue reading
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A dangerous woman?
Leigh Denton looks back to Victorian times when Josephine Butler challenged the brutal treatment of sex workers and those suspected of being sex workers.
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Mathematician Elizabeth Gasparim talks about what being a dangerous woman means to her, in Latin American as well as UK & US contexts.
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…as dangerous women in nineteenth-century France
Heta Aali examines the tension between the agency of the Merovingian queens of the French Middle Ages, and the way they were depicted as saintly or dangerous by 19th century historians.
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A danger to herself?
Clare Stainthorp takes a look at Victorian-era poet and intellectual Constance Naden, believed by men of the time to be a danger to herself for being too intelligent for a woman.
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