The Art of Being Dangerous

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Unique and kaleidoscopic collection of feminist visual and literary art
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today. The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman.
With almost 100 evocative images, this collection showcases an array of contemporary art that highlights the staggering breadth of talent among today's female artists. It offers an unparalleled gallery of feminist creativity, ranging from emerging visual artists from the UK to multi-award-winning writers and translators from the Global South.
Contributors: Margie Orford, Meredith Bergmann, K.E. Carver, Sasha de Buyl-Pisco, Mary Paulson-Ellis, Melissa Álvaro Mutolo, Kerri Turner, Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston, Joanie Conwell, Dilys Rose, Alison Jones, Sim Bajwa, Hilaire, Tara Pixley, Leonie Mhari, Kate Feld, Millie Earle-Wright, Helen Boden, Elif Sezen, Rebecca Vedavathy, Irene Hossack, SE Craythorne, Roisin Kelly, Nkateko Masinga, Elaine Gallagher, Ildiko Nova, Rachel Roberts, susan c. dessel, Savanna Scott Leslie, Heather Pearson, Eva Moreda Rodriguez, Tanya Krzywinska, Siris Gallinat, Clare Archibald, Maya Mackrandilal, Zuhal Feraidon, Anna Brazier, Shirley Day, Treasa Nealon, Satdeep Grewal, Lucy Walters, Priyanthini Guns, Kate Schneider, Alana Tyson, Jayde Kirchert, Boris Eldagsen, Brenda Rosete, Victoria Duckett, Patricia Allmer, JL Williams, Carly Brown, Sotiria Grek, Sepideh Jodeyri, Brooke Bolander, Maria Stoian, Maria Fusco, Claire Askew and Marianne Boruch.
This book emerges from the Dangerous Women Project.
For more information, visit dangerouswomenproject.org
Listen to an interview with Ben Fletcher-Watson at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-being-dangerous

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson
FOREWORD
Jo Shaw
INTRODUCTION
Companions, Friends, Equals
Margie Orford
PREPARING THE CANVAS: SETTING THE SCENE
The Business of Incantations
Heather Pearson
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: ON ARTISTS AND ART-MAKING
Art vs Crafts? On resisting gendered hierarchies of practice in the art world
Alana Tyson
Sowing dangerous seeds
Rachel Roberts
Roma Storyteller
Ildiko Nova
This is not a poem
K.E. Carver
Like a Woman: How we move embodies our past and creates our future
Anna Brazier
How to be a Monster
Maya Mackrandilal
BODY OF WORK: ON SEXUALITY AND THE BODY
N N
Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston
If a dangerous woman you be...
Jayde Kirchert
The Praying Mantis
Rebecca Vedavathy
Shameless
Sim Bajwa
Monster Costume
Sasha de Buyl-Pisco
Bein a Girl
Leonie Mhari
Agendas
Elaine Gallagher
Neo-Burlesque's Neo-Feminism
Tara Pixley
Not My Type
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Her & I
Treasa Nealon
Eat Them All
Siris Gallinat
Archetypes Have No Place Here
Maria Fusco
Poetry, art and 'to dare to talk about my body'
Sepideh Jodeyri
ART OF THE POSSIBLE: ON POLITICS, ACTIVISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hide & Seek
Zuhal Feraidon
Response to Random Murder III: December 14, 2012, Newtown, CT, 28 dead (Mother & Child with a Glock)
Meredith Bergmann
A Cry for the Mothers
Alison Jones
The Trial
Maria Stoian
Obituary
Irene Hossack
The Painter
Lucy Walters
Women of Steel: seeing powerful women in a new frame
Satdeep Grewal
Martha Gruening: 'Brick in a soft hat'
susan c. dessel
An Education
Savanna Scott Leslie
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS: ON FOLKLORE AND HISTORY

Riding with Baba Yaga
Kate Feld
Dangerous Agencies: Norns, Games and Aesthetics of Emergence
Tanya Krzywinska
Not by Blood Alone
Dilys Rose
Stargazed
S.E. Craythorne
Persephone No More
Roisin Kelly
A Short History of Enemies and Friends
Shirley Day
Anne Askew: Dangerous Convictions
Claire Askew
SUFFERING FOR YOUR ART: ON STRENGTH, CONFLICT AND RESISTANCE
Dangerous Emotions: three poems
JL Williams
Plaits Underneath an Orange Helmet
Millie Earle-Wright
This is your story
Melissa Álvaro Mutolo
The Truth
Nkateko Masinga
Speaking Out / Keeping Silent
Sasha de Buyl-Pisco
Forgotten
Kerri Turner
A Dangerous Woman
Joanie Conwell
Paper Dolls Join Together with Dots of Whispered Steel
Clare Archibald
Rearguard Act ion on Neilson Road
Priyanthini Guns
LIVES OF THE ARTISTS: ON BIOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY
Unica Zürn: Creating Art from a Dangerous Place
Hilaire
Joan Eardley: A Woman for all Weathers
Helen Boden
Lady Macbeth: Elisabet Ney's Final Sculpture
Carly Brown
Camille Claudel: the dangerous French sculptor
Elif Sezen
Amparo Cardenal: the singing non-singer
Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Celebrating transgressive celebrity: Sarah Bernhardt
Victoria Duckett
Lee Miller: Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond
Patricia Allmer
Alison Smithson
Kate Schneider
Dangerous Art: Liubov Popova, Constructivism and politics as an artform
Sotiria Grek
Elizabeth Miller: the Maiden of the Sea
Brenda Rosete
Wonder and grief, poetry and danger: reflecting on the life and work of the 'other' Wordsworth
Marianne Boruch
POSTSCRIPT
May you forever be fierce: a dangerous devotional
Brooke Bolander
INDEX