Human Rights
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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“A Woman’s Place is in Antarctica”
Listen to these fascinating audio recordings of geologist Janet Thomson, the BAS’s first female scientist allowed to work in the Antarctic.
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Lilian Lenton
“Whenever I see an empty house I burn it.” (Lilian Lenton, quoted in Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes, ed. by Joyce Marlow)
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Event on 23 Nov as part of Book Week Scotland
Every November, Scotland gets a little bookier than usual thanks to Book Week Scotland, but for this year, it also got a little dangerous.
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A research team in Australia has been uncovering the hidden histories of pioneer women lawyers, and have mounted an online exhibition.
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‘The day she got married, along with a husband she acquired an official right to the colour Red.’ Sujana Upadhyay shows how a colour alone can be dangerous.
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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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Elaine Gallagher responds to the Dangerous Women Project question with a poetic agenda, because ‘difference is deliberate,
disorderly, dangerous…’
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