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Separation as Accommodation in a Danish Swim Club


Posted by seema on 11 May 2016 / 0 Comments
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In Copenhagen, a swimming club has recently started offering female-only sessions to allow more girls the opportunity to swim. Since it began, the program has drawn around 246 girls of non-Danish origin (interestingly, it is much more difficult to find information on whether any girls of Danish ethnic origin also take part). The numbers are […]

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A Danish Scheherazade: Suzanne Brøgger’s The Veil


Posted by tasnim on 29 Jun 2010 / 0 Comments
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The prolific and eclectic Danish writer Suzanne Brøgger has more than twenty works to her name, most of which have at one time or another been labeled as provocative. Brøgger became an overnight celebrity in Denmark back in 1973 with the publication of her acerbically-titled book of essays Fri os fra kærligheden (Deliver Us from […]

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