Tag: Australia
Michelle Collins’ short story looks at a dark period of local history in a Melbourne suburb, to a time when a woman committed serial infanticide.
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A research team in Australia has been uncovering the hidden histories of pioneer women lawyers, and have mounted an online exhibition.
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Daisy Bates: “acquainted with 115 languages of Australia” and… a liar. Lauren Gawne examines a dangerous figure in Australian language study.
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In the lead up to the US Presidential election, Meryl Kenny looks at gender in politics, from ‘dangerous’ and ‘nasty’ women to the glass ceiling above them.
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How imperialism endangered women’s vote
Penny Wang examines the life and work of Flora Shaw, later Lady Lugard, one of the women that posed a danger to women’s suffrage.
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Women and Parkour
Stacey Larner unpacks her experience of being a woman learning parkour–along the way dismantling previous lessons in bodily inhibitions, while reclaiming a physical presence in public space.
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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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Australian actress, writer and producer Jayde Kirchert responds to the Dangerous Women Project question with a poem.
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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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