Tag: law
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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Elaine Gallagher responds to the Dangerous Women Project question with a poetic agenda, because ‘difference is deliberate,
disorderly, dangerous…’
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The Myth of Procne & Philomela
Jean Menzies takes a look at the Philomela and Procne myth, which demonstrated the multifaceted dangerous potential of women in Ancient Greece.
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Prostitution in nineteenth century Britain
Using creative and academic voices, historian Lesley Hulonce examines how prostitutes in Victorian Britain were regarded as dangerous and often treated with terrible callousness by authorities.
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Liz Campbell explores the changing legal landscape for women participating in, or as accessories to, organised crime in the UK and Scotland.
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From Moll Flanders to Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Nicola Lacey draws links between representations of women in literature and their real life treatment under the laws of the 18th century and beyond.
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What did it mean to be a ‘dangerous woman’ in post-Independence Ireland?
Lynsey Black explores the convictions and prejudices that could lead to a woman finding herself with the heaviest of sentences in post-Independence Ireland.
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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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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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