![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to hundreds of popular and scholarly papers, she has written 13 books, three of which are biographies of people she finds fascinating. Pat Shipman is an anthropologist specializing in human evolution and a freelance writer communicating the mystery and fun of science to non-scientists. Speaker: Pat Shipman Pat Shipman, Author of Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari Was she executed as a scapegoat to explain why the war was going badly? Or was she condemned for being an openly sexual, single woman who lived an extravagant life in time of war? Lecture Pictures ![]() The main witness against her was the man who had recruited her to spy for France. After 6 months of constant surveillance, opening her mail, reading her telegrams, listening in on her phone calls, and questioning nearly everyone she dealt with in any way, the prosecution could not produce a single document or secret she had passed to the Germans, nor any evidence of clandestine contact with the enemy. Despite her fame and adoration, she was arrested and shot in 1917 as a spy for Germany (and against France) in World War I. She was the woman every man wanted on his arm - glamorous, beautiful, cultured and sensual - and was seen with most of the wealthy and powerful men of Europe and performed in sold-out theatres everywhere in Western Europe. In the early years of the twentieth century, Mata Hari was known as the most desirable woman in Europe, an artistic and utterly novel dancer who brought sacred temple dances from Asia to the European public. ![]()
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