Elisabet Ney’s final sculpture
With her short story ‘Lady Macbeth’, Carly Brown transports us to the final years of 19th century feminist sculptor Elisabet Ney.
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Lady Florence Dixie and the dangerous women of Scottish women’s football
Margot McCuaig pays tribute to the women throughout history who have organised and played women’s football in Scotland in the face of condescension, opposition and even legal bans.
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Liubov Popova, Constructivism and politics as an artform
Sotiria Grek reflects on the role of women artists–with a focus on Liubov Popova–in the Russian avant-garde movement.
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Editorial: The First Fifty
We take a moment to catch up on the variety and quality we’ve seen in the Dangerous Women Project posts to date, and look at what’s in store for the future.
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‘Heinous’ child killer or vulnerable victim of her times?
Morag Allan Campbell imagines the final days of Jessie King, who in 1889 became the last woman to be executed in Edinburgh.
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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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‘…I will always be, always be, to them a dangerous woman.’
Does racism overshadow everyday life in Scotland? Nadine Aisha’s poignant piece captures a sense of fear and danger in familiar streets.
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The woman who fought for – and won – rights for married women in England
Francine Ryan demonstrates how Caroline Norton, a Victorian-era woman who ‘never pretended to the wild and ridiculous doctrine of equality’ campaigned for married women’s rights to child custody and property.
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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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