Tag: 20th century
What a way to make a living
Laura Clay pays tribute to Dolly Parton – ‘an early feminist pioneer, in a stuffy, set-in-its-ways country music industry’.
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‘Sometimes you have to break certain traditions and laws’: a pioneer in intercultural ministry
Today, Janet Lees honours the memory of Madge Saunders, a pioneer in intercultural church ministry.
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Nation of brothers with late arriving sisters
Did you know women in Switzerland were only granted the vote in 1971? Before that, women’s suffrage was considered a dangerous idea, as Stefanie Kurt explains.
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Swati Ali gives us insight into the dangerous women of her family over several generations of life in India.
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Mathematician Elizabeth Gasparim talks about what being a dangerous woman means to her, in Latin American as well as UK & US contexts.
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Stella Khachina Busolo shares the story of why her mother is a dangerous and inspiring woman, defying the cultural norms of her Kenyan village.
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Dangerous women at the peace table
Laura Wise shows how women who negotiate peace deals are dangerous–not to the resolution of conflict but to the gendered history of war and diplomacy.
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Semiotic power of Her story
Ana Pavlić looks at the writing and activism of Marija Jurić Zagorka, who worked against the politics of her time to expose and improve the status of women.
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Peace and human rights campaigner, poet and much loved woman
Today we feature Jenny Engledow’s tribute to Hazel Rennie, poet and peace campaigner who went to jail four times for challenging war, violence and human rights abuses.
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