Literature
A short story
What if you believed your sexuality was dangerous? Literally dangerous? Hannah Simpson’s short story asks this very question.
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Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
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Writer Jan Carson talks about Flannery O’Connor, who was an inspiration to her when she needed it most. Read this personal, entrancing biography.
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Yewande Omotoso writes about dangerous women in her family: her mother, her grandmother, her aunts, and, perhaps, herself.
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A short story by Rebecca Vedavathy
Rebecca Vedavathy writes a haunting short story about a woman who is put in a complex situation, and the transformation she undergoes.
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For two decades, Lydia Cacho, a Mexican author of 12 books and a women’s rights activist, has been persecuted for her investigative journalism.
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Dangerous ‘Chick Lit’
“My favourite dangerous woman in the ancient world is Thecla. Thecla is quite a gal – part Xena warrior princess, part Saint, dispensing alms to the poor.”
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An overwhelming number of coming-of-age narratives feature boys. Where are all the young women coming into adulthood? Maria Torres-Quevedo explores this.
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“Dream becomes reality. Adventure becomes domesticity, the part where Austen stopped.”
Dream becomes reality. Adventure becomes domesticity, the part where Austen stopped. The dangerous woman always has to speak.
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