Tag: violence against women
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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Illustrator Rachel Roberts celebrates Malala Yousafzai, ‘a woman determined to realise a powerful and positive idea even in the face of danger’.
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Today, Gillian Mellor’s poetry responds to the work of Congolese activist Neema Namadamu.
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The Finnish context
Violence committed by women has become a hot topic in public debate in Finland over recent years. Satu Venäläinen explores the dynamics and implications.
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Tracing a line from flappers to today’s vocal feminists
Jo Walby traces a line from the flappers of the early 20th century to today’s feminists speaking out against rape culture.
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The case of Anne Askew
In the first weeks of the Dangerous Women Project we featured poetry inspired by Anne Askew. Today, Debapriya Basu delves deeper into Anne’s story.
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The Myth of Procne & Philomela
Jean Menzies takes a look at the Philomela and Procne myth, which demonstrated the multifaceted dangerous potential of women in Ancient Greece.
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To celebrate the halfway mark in our year of dangerous women, we feature a powerful spoken word piece from award-winning poet Agnes Török – ‘Reclaim the Internet’.
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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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