Literature
The Enduring Legacy of the Original Dangerous Woman
Katie Scott-Marshall explores the enduring legacy of ‘the original dangerous woman’, from art and literature to contemporary pop culture.
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What does it mean to be a dangerous woman? Depending on the time and the place, it could be the act of riding a bicycle, explains Lena Wånggren.
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She, the Emperor
Chiew-Siah Tei takes us back to the Tang Dynasty, when a woman would rise from lowly concubine to the first and only female emperor in China.
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to be genre-bending is to be dangerous
‘To be genre bending is to be dangerous’. Today, we hear from Elizabeth Reeder on women and essaying.
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Norns, Games and Aesthetics of Emergence
What do Norse myth, Macbeth’s witches, visual art, digital games and gender roles have in common? Today’s post from Tanya Krzywinska explores the links.
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Annee Lawrence explores the life and writing of R. A. Kartini who left a powerful feminist, intellectual and nationalist legacy in Indonesia.
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‘A dangerous woman is one who whispers in the ears of others, blowing the wind of change…’ Read Clare Archibald’s creative take on the Project question.
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A ‘bad and dangerous’ woman?
Today’s Scottish PEN post is Jenni Calder’s wonderful account of writer Naomi Mitchison, who self-identified as ‘a witch, a priestess, a shape-shifter’.
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Sara Sheridan interrogates the taboo of female toplessness, tracing changing attitudes throughout the centuries & locating the body as a site for protest.
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