The rise of the female assassin in Colombia
Baker and Jaramillo explore the fictional and factual worlds of female drug assassins in the cartels of Colombia, focusing on the symbolic role of the motorbike.
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Gender politics in Ancient Hindu Epic Literature
Naomi Appleton argues that Draupadi’s challenging words and actions are a danger to patriarchy, a danger to societies that would present submission and silence as feminine ideals.
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Cheryl Smith explores the “sassy-brassy fab exotic friend” of her youth – a French teacher with a blonde wig and a fondness for the strap.
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What does it mean to be a dangerous (Black) woman?
Tess Ryan explores some of the leadership roles – and challenges – that Black women have taken on in Australia using the idea of the ‘angry black woman’.
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Daenerys Targaryen as Dangerous Woman
Natasha Cooper explores the strengths and paradoxes of the fictional character Daenerys Targaryen which make her a dangerous woman.
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Nina Mega is a Dangerous Woman because she is autistic and proud of it. Her mother Catherine Simpson tells us why in words and pictures.
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What turned a Cornish country girl into a dangerous woman?
Deirdre Chapman reflects on the life and character of her mother-in-law Valda – writer in her own right and wife to poet Christopher Grieve, aka Hugh MacDiarmid.
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Fake Woman and Dangerous Mystic
Marguerite Porete was accused of being a heretic and even a ‘pseudo’ woman by the Inquisition and executed in the early fourteenth century. Laura Moncion explores the implications of her gender for judgements made about her.
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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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