Tag: UK
Australian writer Laura Elizabeth Woollett examines the simultaneous vulnerability and potentially dangerous ‘hunger for the extraordinary’ experienced by many teenage girls.
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Gender inequality in the legal profession – distant past or a current concern?
‘A dangerous woman will challenge stereotyping and a persistently patriarchal hierarchy to claim the career that she deserves.’ An account of sexism in the legal profession from a practicing barrister.
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Femme fatale, martyr, or tragic romantic heroine?
In this fourth Spy Week post, Lucy R. Hinnie explores the threat–political and gendered–embodied by Mary I of Scotland, and the 16th century espionage that led to her ultimate downfall.
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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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What if Holloway Prison could reflect on its closure?
If these walls could talk? Eithne Cullen imagines what Holloway Prison would have to say about the announcement of its closure in 2015, after more than a century of housing some of the UK’s most notable female prisoners.
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What does it mean to be a truly dangerous woman, in this dangerous world?
‘A woman becomes dangerous when she threatens the status quo… when she points out what is hiding in plain sight.’ Writer and broadcaster Bidisha reflects on the central question of the Dangerous Women Project: What does it mean to be a dangerous woman?
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How my mother taught me about bravery, identity and human rights
For barrister Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright, a dangerous woman is a woman who helps others to find their identity, especially when that does not conform to convention.
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Subtle subversions of Victorian gender conventions
Laura Witz illustrates how one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, Margaret Oliphant, challenged 19th century society’s expectations of women via an unexpected route–the romance novel.
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The questions asked in the aftermath of sexual violence
Eleanor Cope reflects on her road to recovery as a rape survivor, facing and dismantling the question: is my sexuality dangerous?
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