From Moll Flanders to Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Nicola Lacey draws links between representations of women in literature and their real life treatment under the laws of the 18th century and beyond.
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On encounters with Martha Gellhorn
Playwright and theatre director Julia Pascal recounts her time spent with Martha Gellhorn, one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century.
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‘Who’s going to visit you when you’re old?’ By choosing at a young age to never have children, Jasmine Tonie finds herself in the category of ‘dangerous woman’.
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Queen Mother of the Ashanti Confederacy
Strategic leader of the Ashanti Confederacy army in the fifth Anglo-Ashanti War, Yaa Asantewaa cemented her place in history as a dangerous woman.
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The post-surgery selfie
Lizzy Rose discusses how sharing ‘post-surgery selfies’ online challenges people’s perceptions of illness–though this defiance can expose the individual to danger.
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On resisting gendered hierarchies of practice in the art world
Alana Tyson shares her response to the debasement of ‘feminine’ domestic crafts, an attitude which continues to marginalise many women in the art world.
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A dangerously undomesticated Roman wife
Suzanne Dixon shows us the hostile and misogynist historical tradition against Fulvia – perhaps most commonly known today as the wife of Roman general Mark Antony.
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‘Enemy of the Soviet People’
Remembering poet Anna Akhmatova, often thought of as Russia’s ‘Cassandra’ through the violent days of Revolution and even bloodier years of Sovietisation.
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‘People were always asking women if they were lost when they were merely thinking. A man with a map is studying it; a woman with the same stance is confused.’ Mel Evan’s creative piece examines women alone.
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