Posts Tagged ‘heroines’

Greece’s East Attica In Antiquity: Playground Of Gods, Heroes And Heroines

The seductive scenery along the east coast of Attica in Greece overlooking the Aegean Sea, easily lures one back to an era when mythical gods and goddesses still claimed the land and implored their heroes to build temples for them and their heroines to serve in their sanctuaries as priestesses. During the Mycenaean Bronze Age […]

Goddesses and Heroines: Studying the Amazing 19th Century Paintings of Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) Alongside William-Adolphe Bouguereau, his lifetime competitor, Joseph Lefebvre is one of the most celebrated artists from turn-of-the-century France. His depictions of women as romantic and allegorical subjects are just as amazing as Bouguereau’s who, as I said once, should be considered one of the forefathers of contemporary hyper-realism. Unfortunately enough, just […]

Heroines we need: Rewriting the Holocaust to unearth female leaders

Zelda Treger was a resistance fighter in disguise. A Nazi and a police officer caught her, after she was denounced as a Jew. The police officer allowed her to live in exchange for gold, but forced Zelda to his apartment.  The police officer’s landlord, however, did not approve of his lady guest and threatened the […]

Iranian photographers added to global list of Hundred Heroines

TEHRAN – Iranian photographers Fatemeh Behbudi, Shadi Qadirian and Azadeh Akhlaqi have been added to Hundred Heroines, a pioneering list of global women photographers. Hundred Heroines was initiated by the Royal Photographic Society in 2018 to mark the centenary of the women’s right to vote in the UK by identifying outstanding female photographers from around […]

Kurdish girl soldiers: Heroines or victims in Syria’s civil war?

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