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Comment on Maud Allen: The Salome Dancer by Salome-skolen III: Hun som gjorde Salomes dans til sin | Siri Lindstad

Salome-skolen III: Hun som gjorde Salomes dans til sin | Siri Lindstad — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:46:32 +0000

[...] Hun hadde ingen formell utdannelse innenfor dans, men utviklet sitt helt eget uttrykk. I 1906 hadde hennes egenkoreograferte forestilling Vision of Salome premiere i Wien. Den skulle gjøre henne til en – om enn omdiskutert – stjerne. Forestillingen var basert på Oscar Wildes skuespill, der hennes versjon av De sju slørs dans ble berømt og beryktet for sitt eksplisitt erotiske uttrykk. Hør bare hva en i publikum skriver i en klage til erkebiskopen i Dublin etter å ha sett Allan danse (sitert fra Women’s History Network Blog): [...]

Comment on Black History Month: On the margins? British Caribbean and British Asian Women: A Brief History, Part 1. by Women’s History Month | The Plaid Bag Connection

Women’s History Month | The Plaid Bag Connection — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:10:03 +0000

[...] British Caribbean and British Asian women, a brief history Black and Asian women’s lives can only be interpreted in relation to the history of colonialism and slavery. There were significant differences in white stereotypes of black and Asian women that evolved in the colonial era but both contrasted adversely to ‘superior’ white women (Bush 2004). Asian women were stereotyped as docile and passive and oppressed by patriarchy, particularly Moslem women. The perceived seclusion of the veil, purdah and the forbidden sexuality of the harem, common themes in western orientalist discourse, strengthened the stereotype of passivity. This contrasts with the multiple identities attributed historically to women of African origin in the Americas during the era of slavery- ‘Sable Venus’ and sexual temptress; rebellious ‘she devil’ and as, the African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, observed, the ‘mule ah de world’ (Bush, 2000). [...]

Comment on Elizabeth Heyrick (1869-1831) by Social Politics and the ‘Home Front’ of Consumer Boycotts « Chomping at the Bloodied Bit

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:21:20 +0000

[...] by lobbying slave owners, through boycotts, pickets, petitions. Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick’s treatise Immediate and not Gradual Abolition is a superb example of an early feminist voice [...]

Comment on A Woman is a Person! Sophia Jex-Blake’s Historical Struggle by Fundamentalism vs Education: Women’s Struggle – Part 2 « Women's History Network Blog

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:26:18 +0000

[...] than half a century before, in the 1860s, Sophia Jex-Blake and six would-be fellow medical students fought through theUnited Kingdom legal system for the [...]

Comment on Women’s History Month: Pandita Ramabai by Pandita Ramabai « VintageSareeBlouse

Pandita Ramabai « VintageSareeBlouse — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:34:16 +0000

[...] Ramabai, author of The High Caste Hindu Woman and an early feminist and social reformer, converted to Christianity and went on to found the Mukti [...]

Comment on Women’s Work, Yesterday and Today, part one. by whnadmin

whnadmin — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:31:48 +0000

thank you for your comment – greatly appreciated! and if you have a blog (1000 words max.) or suggestion for same, please let me know jocelynne.scutt@cantab.net one of my fields is fashion – history past and contemporary and politics of same. welcome contributions in that vein! (and any others, of course!)

Comment on What’s in a name? Or leaving your patrilineage behind. by Wanting, and names « Urocyon's Meanderings

Wanting, and names « Urocyon's Meanderings — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:37:44 +0000

[...] What’s in a name? Or leaving your patrilineage behind. (an interesting read, on variation even within Europe): For starters, the tradition of taking a [...]

Comment on Bristol Suffragette Project by Suffragate manchester | Myrandomspot

Suffragate manchester | Myrandomspot — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:39:21 +0000

[...] Bristol Suffragette Project « Women’s History Network BlogTHE SUFFRAGETTE Sylvia Pankhurst designing a part of the decorations of the …. Dr. Pankhurst had been one of the founders of the pioneer Manchester … [...]

Comment on Adolescent angst and wartime woes in World War Two France by Liza

Liza — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:18:22 +0000

Thank you for a very interesting post, which gave me helpful insight into the heroine of my current novel – a teenage farmgirl living in Occupied France.

Comment on Adolescent angst and wartime woes in World War Two France by Final Reflections… « The Digital Humanities

Final Reflections… « The Digital Humanities — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:26:38 +0000

[...] different women in history. This time: Karen Silkwood. Sadly, as this is my last blog post, the Women’s History Network has nothing new to offer me this week nor does the Writing Women’s History blog. Oh well, [...]