Tag: relationships
Daenerys Targaryen as Dangerous Woman
Natasha Cooper explores the strengths and paradoxes of the fictional character Daenerys Targaryen which make her a dangerous woman.
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Three poems by JL Williams
Through her poetry, JL Williams explores the challenge of expressing emotions freely as a woman in a patriarchal society.
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Susanna Crossman’s short story ‘The Tally’ explores a woman’s journey to seek vengeance.
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Bridle/Bridal Mismanagement in Early Modern Drama
Through the lens of seventeenth century horsemanship, Jemima Hubberstey explores the subversive potential for a dangerous woman, like a spirited horse, to resist and destabilise the patriarchal order.
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Elisabet Ney’s final sculpture
With her short story ‘Lady Macbeth’, Carly Brown transports us to the final years of 19th century feminist sculptor Elisabet Ney.
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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’.
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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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One woman’s struggle to become legally divorced in India
Papia Sengupta spent five years seeking a divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act of India. Here, she shares the legal and social challenges she faced along her journey.
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Is it a dangerous idea? Undermining tradition? Threatening romantic love?
Joni Meenagh researches young people’s negotiation of their romantic and sexual relationships in the context of new media environments. Here, she challenges the notion of marital status as society’s most privileged category of interpersonal relationships.
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