Tag: women writers
Poetry, art and ‘to dare to talk about my body’
Iranian poet Sepideh Jodeyri explores her experience of objectification of the female body in her homeland, through her poem ‘a piece of flesh’ and the art that inspired this work.
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Writer, explorer, trailblazer
In the second of a series of posts from Scottish PEN (a centre of PEN International, the worldwide association of writers promoting literature and freedom of expression), Jenni Calder explores the life and writing of Isabella Bird.
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A manifesto
‘To others, I am the dangerous woman. Not because I am armed with anything more deadly than a paring knife or a wooden spoon…’ Writer Stella Birrell responds to the central question of the Dangerous Women Project.
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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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Pioneering Nigerian administrator, academic and author
Co-written by Flora’s eldest daughter and niece, today’s post considers the life and accomplishments of this remarkable Nigerian woman.
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Twelfth-century Greek Byzantine princess, historian, scholar–and conspirator?
Ioulia Kolovou takes a fascinating look at the way Byzantine princess Anna Komnene has been portrayed in history and literature as ‘dangerous’.
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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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Lauded poet Rachel McCrum shares a powerful poem in response to incidences of mass sexual violence against women reported from different parts of the world in recent years.
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Insight into one of ‘The Bletchley Girls’
In our second post for Edinburgh Spy Week, Tessa Dunlop shares the time she spent with Rozanne Colchester, one of the many women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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