Tag: research-led
Véronique Desnain examines the legacy of 1600s philosopher Gabrielle Suchon, who believed women had a natural aptitude for ‘Freedom, Science & Authority’.
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Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
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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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Writer Hélène Cixous was revolutionary in her efforts to talk about ‘dangerous’ subject matters, as Raquelle K. Bostow explains.
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Dangerous Women and the Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylum
Cara Dobbing examines the difference between mental illness and being perceived a dangerous woman in a nineteenth century lunatic asylum.
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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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A dangerous woman?
Leigh Denton looks back to Victorian times when Josephine Butler challenged the brutal treatment of sex workers and those suspected of being sex workers.
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A danger to herself?
Clare Stainthorp takes a look at Victorian-era poet and intellectual Constance Naden, believed by men of the time to be a danger to herself for being too intelligent for a woman.
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