Tag: Women's History
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“We Won a Battle But Lost the War”: The 1968 Ford Dagenham Strike
Lauren Hood zooms in on 1968’s Ford Dagenham women who struck for equal pay and job classification, influencing legislation but facing ongoing frustrations about their skilled labour recognition.
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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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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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