Bibliograph

Dangerous women, fifty reflections on women, power and identity, edited by Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh

Type

Label

Dangerous women, fifty reflections on women, power and identity, edited by Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dangerous women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1273669426

Responsibility statement

edited by Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh

Sub title

fifty reflections on women, power and identity

Summary

What does it mean for the Sun to call Shami Chakrabarti 'the most dangerous woman in Britain' or the Daily Mail to label Nicola Sturgeon 'the most dangerous wee woman in the world'? What, really, does it mean to be a dangerous woman? This powerful anthology presents fifty answers to that question, reaching past media hyperbole to explore serious considerations about the conflicts and power dynamics with which women live today.In Dangerous Women, writers, artists, politicians, journalists, performers and opinion-formers from a variety of backgrounds - including Irenosen Okojie, Jo Clifford, Bidisha, Nada Awar Jarrar, Nicola Sturgeon and many more - reflect on the long-standing idea that women, individually or collectively, constitute a threat.In doing so, they celebrate and give agency to the women who have been dismissed or trivialised for their power, talent and success - the women who have been condemned for challenging the status quo. They reclaim the right to be dangerous. --amazon.com

Table Of Contents

When we are 'dangerous,' we can change the world / Nicola Sturgeon -- Crime and punishment in love / Laura Elizabeth Woollett -- Women in organised crime / Liz Campbell -- Motorbike murderers and femme fatales: The rise of the female assassin in Colombia / Pascale Baker and Catalina Jaramillo -- Wikipedia's women problem / Melissa Highton -- Dangerous is not safe: A poem / Dorcas Agbogun -- What the kitchen witch said / Claire Askew -- Neema Namadamu / Gillian Mellor -- Pink sceptics: Dangerous women and the 'pink ribbon' culture / Adela Briansó -- Exposing trauma: The post-surgery selfie / Lizzy Rose -- Lies: On the danger inherent in postnatal depression / Teresa Sweeney -- Tradition, sexuality, and power: Questioning the motivations behind FGM / Jean Rafferty -- Mental health and becoming a danger to yourself / Irenosen Okojie -- Unsexing Fulvia: A dangerously undomesticated Roman wife / Suzanne Dixon -- Josephine Butler: A dangerous woman? / Leigh Denton -- R.A. Kartini and the 'clover leaf' / Annee Lawrence -- Partizanke: Their dangerous legacy in the post-Yugoslav space / Chiara Bonfiglioli -- Marie de Guise / Amy Blakeway -- Florence's prostitutes: Dangerous women serving the city / Gillian Jack -- Margery Kempe: A medieval phenomenon / A.C. Clarke -- Annie S. Swan: Making people cry / Glenda Norquay -- Jeanne Baret, pioneer botanist / Glynis Ridley -- Yaa Asantewaa: Queen mother of the Ashanti Confederacy / Chantal Korsah -- Gabrielle Suchon: A dangerous philosopher / Véronique Dasnain -- 'Plucky little Adela': Australia's unruly Pankhurst / Geraldine Fela -- Redefining female agency / Kayleigh Tervooren -- Narratives of female fighters: Self-defence classes for women in revolutionary Cairo / Perrine Lachenal -- Childless by choice / Jasmine Tonie -- A serious kind of love / Yewande Omotoso -- A deep shade of red / Sujana Crawford -- Headscarves / Nada Awar Jarrar -- Outside the camp / Janet Lees -- The teacher / Meltem Naz Kaşo Corral Sánchez -- Eve: The enduring legacy of the original dangerous woman / Katie Scott-Marshall -- Thecla: Dangerous 'chick lit' / Catherine Kennedy -- A dangerous woman speaks of her bewilderment... / Jo Clifford -- When lesbians became dangerous: The new woman discourses of the Fin de Siècle / Laurie Garrison -- Shaming the shameless: What is dangerous about Anaïs Nin? / Ruth Charnock -- Confronting the black jezebel stereotype: The contentious legacy of Brenda Fassie, South Africa's pop princess / Chisomo Kalinga -- What does it mean to be a truly dangerous woman, in this dangerous world? / Bidisha -- Speak out! dangerous white woman / Pegi Eyers -- Is my sexuality dangerous? the questions asked in the aftermath of sexual violence / Eleanor Cope -- The first blast to awaken women degenerate / Rachel McCrum and Jonathan Lamy -- You are a danger to our society: One woman's struggle to become legally divorced in India / Papia Sengupta -- Load comments / Maria Stoian -- Three poems: I'm a woman, the weed, poem for the puya / Mab Jones -- Nature and danger: Women's environmentalism / Kate Lewis Hood -- Women's labour and trade unionism: A dangerous combination? / Rebecca Zahn and Nicole Busby -- Dangerously provocative / Jessica Wolfendale -- Research has shown: On gendered speech patterns / Laura Waddell -- Other pieces from the dangerous women project

Contributor

Genre

Subject