Sexuality
Dangerous women serving the city
Over the course of three centuries, the prostitutes of Florence ascended from outcasts to workers in the service of the state. Gillian Jack explains how.
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Sally Wainwright on the Audacious Women Festival
Sally Wainwright tells us about the background of the Audacious Women Festival, its inception, its plans, and the power in its inclusivity.
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“We were Eve, Lilith, Circe, Pandora. They watched our transition from pink to red, their hearts in their throats,” writes Lily Stojcevski.
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“How dangerous to claim your body as wholly your own” : Tara Pixley gives us a snapshot of the women finding their own feminism and power in neo-burlesque.
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The shocking life of Harriette Wilson
Harriette Wilson: “who captivated, charmed & dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger & terrify her way straight back out.”
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“Watching a film, apparently, is code.” Christina Neuwirth grapples with the ‘Friend Zone’ idea, among other dangerous narratives of socialising & dating.
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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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The New Woman Discourses of the Fin de Siècle
Laurie Garrison writes about lesbians depicted in New Woman writing, and how the perspective on women loving women changed throughout this stand of writing.
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