Tag: Women on trial
Rebellion or Conformity?
Rachel Walker revisits the history of Anne Boleyn–the undeniably controversial wife of Henry VIII who commands enduring fascination among scholars and the public.
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Fake Woman and Dangerous Mystic
Marguerite Porete was accused of being a heretic and even a ‘pseudo’ woman by the Inquisition and executed in the early fourteenth century. Laura Moncion explores the implications of her gender for judgements made about her.
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Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry argue that gender stereotypes obscure the actual dangerousness of politically violent women.
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Branded a threat to communism
Kelly Hignett highlights the story of Dagmar Šimková, imprisoned in Czechoslovakia for alleged anti-communist activities in the 1950s and 1960s.
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What did it mean to be a ‘dangerous woman’ in post-Independence Ireland?
Lynsey Black explores the convictions and prejudices that could lead to a woman finding herself with the heaviest of sentences in post-Independence Ireland.
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Australia’s Unruly Pankhurst
Geraldine Fela traces the political career of Adela Pankhurst – from communist anti-conscription campaigner to a conservative who assisted with the founding of a proto-fascist political party.
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‘Heinous’ child killer or vulnerable victim of her times?
Morag Allan Campbell imagines the final days of Jessie King, who in 1889 became the last woman to be executed in Edinburgh.
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The Women of the Pendle Witch Trials
Writer Sarah King looks at the relationship between sexuality and witchcraft in the infamous 17th century trials of the ‘Pendle witches’.
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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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