Tag: UK
Ru Raynor shares her journey into environmental activism, issuing a call to arms that challenges consumerism and capitalism.
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Challenging the way we think about the beauty industry
Molly Sheridan is interested representations of women in the beauty and fashion industry. Here, she discusses founding feminist perfume brand REEK with her mother.
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(Or Things My Wife and I Found Hidden In Our House)
In today’s post, writer Kirsty Logan weaves a magical short story of dangerous women and Scottish myth.
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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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‘Sometimes you have to break certain traditions and laws’: a pioneer in intercultural ministry
Today, Janet Lees honours the memory of Madge Saunders, a pioneer in intercultural church ministry.
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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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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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Mathematician Elizabeth Gasparim talks about what being a dangerous woman means to her, in Latin American as well as UK & US contexts.
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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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