Tag: Women on trial
Dangerous women serving the city
Over the course of three centuries, the prostitutes of Florence ascended from outcasts to workers in the service of the state. Gillian Jack explains how.
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Who were the dangerous women of medieval England? Teresa Phipps recovers their stories from legal documents and court records.
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Jonatha Kottler reflects on encountering, at different stages of life, the figure of Guinevere in popular culture.
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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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From a member of the project team
A member of the Dangerous Women Project team shares her experiences of being labelled dangerous, and urges others to join the discussion.
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Think you know the Rapunzel fairytale? But have you heard the other side of the story?
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She, the Emperor
Chiew-Siah Tei takes us back to the Tang Dynasty, when a woman would rise from lowly concubine to the first and only female emperor in China.
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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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Liz Campbell explores the changing legal landscape for women participating in, or as accessories to, organised crime in the UK and Scotland.
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