Identity & Community
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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Tracing a line from flappers to today’s vocal feminists
Jo Walby traces a line from the flappers of the early 20th century to today’s feminists speaking out against rape culture.
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The case of Anne Askew
In the first weeks of the Dangerous Women Project we featured poetry inspired by Anne Askew. Today, Debapriya Basu delves deeper into Anne’s story.
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The Myth of Procne & Philomela
Jean Menzies takes a look at the Philomela and Procne myth, which demonstrated the multifaceted dangerous potential of women in Ancient Greece.
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Anna Ridler works with existing collections of information or data to create new and unusual narratives. Here, she challenges our perceptions with images from the Saudi Cables data dump.
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When Meltem Naz Kaso volunteers to help women from different faiths communicate, they all become dangerous to the persistence of xenophobia & Islamophobia.
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Prostitution in nineteenth century Britain
Using creative and academic voices, historian Lesley Hulonce examines how prostitutes in Victorian Britain were regarded as dangerous and often treated with terrible callousness by authorities.
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To celebrate the halfway mark in our year of dangerous women, we feature a powerful spoken word piece from award-winning poet Agnes Török – ‘Reclaim the Internet’.
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