Tag: Women's History
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‘Diseased Love’, Female Sexuality and Sexual Jealousy in Euripides’ Medea
Bethany Hicks-Gravener considers Medea as a discourse of ancient Greek female sexuality.
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The Domestic Female Renaissance: Enacting Power Behind Closed Doors
Abby Hughes details how second wave feminism inspired a reexamination of the experience of women in the Renaissance.
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The Creation of Woman and Language that Shaped Her
Arianna North Castell explores how language has shaped the expectations and status of women in society
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Recreating the Myth: Cleopatra’s Death in Two Nineteenth-Century French Paintings
Peiqi An delves into the legacy of Cleopatra’s death and modern Egyptomania across a comparative visual analysis.
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Princess, Priestess, Poet. How the World’s First Named Author has been erased from History
Millie Oliver discusses efforts made to remember the works of Enheduanna, the world’s first named author.
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Representations of Women Working in the NHS within Medical Romance Novels
Lauren Hood explores how romance novels from publishers like Mills & Boon have portrayed women in medicine since 1948.
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Clytemnestra’s Motherhood and Revenge in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Bethany Hicks-Gravener analyses Clytemnestra’s psychological construction in the Greek tragedy, Agamemnon, providing a fascinating textual evaluation that is set within recent approaches to classical studies of honour.
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Witnessing the Spanish Civil War- A Visual Archive from the Republican Side.
Arianna North Castell discusses the impact of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) on Catalan identity and resilience through visual records, particularly photographs by Antoni Campañà. These images reveal women’s unfiltered role in both combat and social recovery, serving as poignant reminders of a traumatic history, urging remembrance.
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