Peace & Conflict

Narratives of Female Fighters

Self-Defence Classes for Women in Revolutionary Cairo

Perrine Lachenal explores the phenomenon of self-defence classes in Cairo, where women learn how to defend themselves in the event of attack. She explores what this tells us about the character of the ‘dangerous woman’ in that particular cultural context. Continue reading
Bletchley Girls

An Unlikely Asset

Insight into one of ‘The Bletchley Girls’

In our second post for Edinburgh Spy Week, Tessa Dunlop shares the time she spent with Rozanne Colchester, one of the many women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II. Continue reading
Partizanke - female partisan fighters

Partizanke

Their dangerous legacy in the post-Yugoslav space

The contribution of ‘partizanke’, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe. Here, Chiara Bonfiglioli explores the agency of these women and the reverberations of their actions to the present day. Continue reading