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What is the Dangerous Women Project?

We’re asking: ‘what does it mean to be a dangerous woman?’ Read more about the why, how and when here.

The home of the Dangerous Women Project is the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

All views expressed in the Dangerous Women Project’s daily posts are those of the individual author.

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We have some suggestions about the various ways you can help make the Dangerous Women Project a success. You can also buy our books:

The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression (Leuven University Press, 2021) edited by Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson

Dangerous Women: fifty reflections on women, power and identity (Unbound, 2022) edited by Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh