For some early feminists, like Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Lamb, embroidery was pointless, infantilizing busy-work, taught to upper- and middle-class women in order to signify that they had nothing important to do and so could afford to waste their time on trifles. These women agitated for ...
You know what “very famous person who was recently in court” story I’m talking about (and if you’ve somehow missed the wall-to-wall news coverage and analysis, I envy you). A confession: I don’t write about politics in this column. I might allude to somethin...
Bridget Kenny8“Threatening Our Home Life”: ShopHours and White Women Retail Workers’Struggles Around Evening Hours inJohannesburg South Africa (1908–1960s)A petition to Johannesburg retailers read,Wishing You and Your Family the Compliments of the Season and Lots of Happiness for1962. However, ...
While his early landscapes usually mirror the artist's mood, often with somber or mystical undertones, his later treatment of this genre is a colorful celebration of nature and its power. In Rowboats at Åsgårdstrand the undulations of the water rippling against the boats and port evoke ...