The Great Escape
Meet the single ladies of ancient China, who were having too much fun to want to settle down.
Bad Gals/ Boys
Bad Gals/ Boys
Josie’s Bliss, Pablo’s Honey
The truth behind Pablo Neruda’s love affair in Burma.
Bad Gals/ Boys
Suffragette Princess: Sophia Duleep Singh
It would have been easy, given the trauma of her early years, to retreat into her cocoon of privilege.
Bad Gals/ Boys
Every Bad Girl Needs an Exit Strategy
Things would have turned out very differently for Marie Antoinette had she had one.
Bad Gals/ Boys
What It Feels Like for a Girl
What is the feminine mystique?
Bad Gals/ Boys
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.
Bad Gals/ Boys
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.
International Relations
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.
International Relations
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…
Bad Gals/ Boys
The Daredevil Aviatrixes of China
The phenomenal feats of the world’s most glamorous aviatrixes.