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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Alice Tarbuck writes of nourishing the body as a radical feminist act, of kitchen magic that allows us to ‘protest, fight, right wrongs, change the world’.
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An Appreciation
Sandra Cairncross explores the lives of four sisters born in Glasgow, three of whom were accomplished artists, but whose lives are now disappearing from sight.
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Editorial: 200 Dangerous Women
Time flies when you’re having fun… or being dangerous! In today’s editorial we celebrate not one, but two milestones. Time to break out the cake!
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The Finnish context
Violence committed by women has become a hot topic in public debate in Finland over recent years. Satu Venäläinen explores the dynamics and implications.
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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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How imperialism endangered women’s vote
Penny Wang examines the life and work of Flora Shaw, later Lady Lugard, one of the women that posed a danger to women’s suffrage.
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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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