Tag: pop culture
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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Last month we featured an article that briefly mentioned the role of flappers as a crucial moment in women’s history. Here, Amy Williams takes a more in-depth look.
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Christine and the Queens
Sammy Bishop explores how music group Christine and the Queens actively defy traditional performances of gender.
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Celebrating transgressive celebrity
Film historian Victoria Duckett celebrates the dangerous career of 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt.
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Sasha de Buyl-Pisco’s poignant comic asks questions about the masks society expects women to wear.
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Breaking the mould as the first female Director General of MI5
Dame Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of UK intelligence service MI5. Today, she recalls changing perceptions of her as a ‘dangerous woman’.
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The contentious legacy of Brenda Fassie, South Africa’s pop princess
Chisomo Kalinga explores the life and career of Brenda Fassie, against a backdrop of traditional values and stereotypes of black female sexuality.
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