Tag: reproductive rights
Adrienne Gerhäuser, Corinna Kawaters and the ‘Red Zora’
Katharina Karcher delves into the history of Red Zora, a German feminist group that claimed responsibility for forty-five arson attacks and bombings between the 1970s & 1990s.
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Katie Munnick recounts her personal experience with midwifery, wondering if ‘danger might be in the eye of the beholder’ with regards women’s birthing choices.
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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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Pioneering Nigerian administrator, academic and author
Co-written by Flora’s eldest daughter and niece, today’s post considers the life and accomplishments of this remarkable Nigerian woman.
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How dangerous women will save Poland
Polish human rights advocate Anna Błuś on recent protests against proposed restrictive reproductive rights legislation in Poland, and the links with the struggle for women’s bodily autonomy around the world.
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Groundbreaking scientist and environmental activist
During her lifetime, Dr Theo Colborn made many enemies, confronting some of the world’s most powerful industries and exposing how their products have wreaked havoc on the human endocrine system.
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A modern day witch-hunt
Western society’s belief in witches may have come and gone, but what would a witch-hunt look like today? In this comic, Maria Stoian has created a chilling and compelling interpretation of a 21st century witch trial.
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How can it be ‘dangerous’ for women to ask for what they want?
Is it not time that women have proper choices about how and when they have their baby? To decide for their own and their baby’s individual circumstances?
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The struggle for women’s rights in Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexican activist Verónica Cruz Sánchez explains how she came to be perceived a dangerous woman, and why she embraces her dangerous identity in defense of human rights.
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