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The Great Escape
Bad Gals/ Boys
January 16, 2017

The Great Escape

Meet the single ladies of ancient China, who were having too much fun to want to settle down.

Josie’s Bliss, Pablo’s Honey
Bad Gals/ Boys
March 4, 2016

Josie’s Bliss, Pablo’s Honey

The truth behind Pablo Neruda’s love affair in Burma.

Suffragette Princess: Sophia Duleep Singh
Bad Gals/ Boys
February 2, 2016

Suffragette Princess: Sophia Duleep Singh

It would have been easy, given the trauma of her early years, to retreat into her cocoon of privilege.

Every Bad Girl Needs an Exit Strategy
Bad Gals/ Boys
October 16, 2015

Every Bad Girl Needs an Exit Strategy

Things would have turned out very differently for Marie Antoinette had she had one.

What It Feels Like for a Girl
Bad Gals/ Boys
August 25, 2015

What It Feels Like for a Girl

What is the feminine mystique?

The Baddest One of Them All: Empress Dowager Cixi
Bad Gals/ Boys
August 24, 2015

The Baddest One of Them All: Empress Dowager Cixi

How a whiffet of undistinguished antecedents plotted and schemed her way to the top is a lesson in bad galing for all the aspiring bad gals out there.

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: Yoshiko Kawashima
Bad Gals/ Boys
July 3, 2015

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: Yoshiko Kawashima

How different is a person allowed to be? Serious threats to established systems are either co-opted and neutralised or completely destroyed.

Janice Nimura on the Importance of Being Amphibious
International Relations
June 17, 2015

Janice Nimura on the Importance of Being Amphibious

Janice Nimura on her book, “Daughters of the Samurai,” a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and on living a three-dimensional life.

The Dilemma of an American Education
International Relations
June 10, 2015

The Dilemma of an American Education

The year was 1871. Japan was modernising, and the country needed to educate its daughters. But what to teach them? The old Confucian ways no…

The Daredevil Aviatrixes of China
Bad Gals/ Boys
June 4, 2015

The Daredevil Aviatrixes of China

The phenomenal feats of the world’s most glamorous aviatrixes.

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