Tag: 20th century

Dangerous Advice?

Columnist Mireya coaches 1950s Mexican immigrant women on dating, working and belonging

Soledad Quartucci takes us back to the southwest U.S. of the 1950s, when advice columnist Mireya was both a lifeline to first generation Mexican Americans and a danger to traditional values. Continue reading
Florence Dixie - women's football pioneer

Honeyballers

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. Continue reading
Alifa Rifaat's work delved into the desires and domestic lives of 20th century Egyptian women.

Alifa Rifaat

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’. Continue reading