Sexuality
Australian actress, writer and producer Jayde Kirchert responds to the Dangerous Women Project question with a poem.
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The frustrating ambivalence of veiled (and unveiled) Algerian women in the decolonisation struggle
Paola Tenconi looks beyond first appearance to deconstruct the veil in Algerian colonial history.
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Sea Sharp’s poem presents the ambiguous figure of Calamity Jane, using the ambiguity in the form of the poetry to mimic the ambiguity in Jane’s identity.
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Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond
By reviewing the story of Lee Miller’s life, Patricia Allmer explores how the woman artist occupies a permanently impermanent position, constantly discovered and then re-discovered.
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Three poems by JL Williams
Through her poetry, JL Williams explores the challenge of expressing emotions freely as a woman in a patriarchal society.
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Susanna Crossman’s short story ‘The Tally’ explores a woman’s journey to seek vengeance.
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Where dangerous women swim
Victoria Leslie explores the connection between women and water–physical and metaphorical–in myth, history and the writing of Virginia Woolf.
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Writing women’s desires and domestic lives in 20th century Egypt
Alia Soliman looks at the ‘danger’ in the work of Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat, whose ‘imprint lingers as someone who dared speak of female desire in what was at the time an almost completely patriarchal society’.
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Poetry, art and ‘to dare to talk about my body’
Iranian poet Sepideh Jodeyri explores her experience of objectification of the female body in her homeland, through her poem ‘a piece of flesh’ and the art that inspired this work.
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