Two impoverished old women are talking in the street – a unconsciously joky exchange – which is the amusing part for the audience of the day (I won’t go into the rather laboured humour which, if it has any suffrage relevance, is only to mock woman’s supposed illogicality)- but what...
With her 1964 book of poemsAnother Birth, the nation’s literary community belatedly began to celebrate her genius. The reading public started to proclaim her their artistic hero. Her poems ridiculed the prevailing social agenda and demanded better: O, how comfortable I amin the loving arms of ...
hen exploring the anthologies of poetry by Christian women through the ages, a fascinating voice emerges and resounds from ninth-century Constantinople. This is the voice of Kassia, a nun, poet, and hymnographer, whose great religious faith and literary and musical talents make her one of the...
1980. A solid, well-written piece of scholarship. The author does an excellent job of relating Kollontai’s political career to broader trends in the socialist and feminist movements of her day.
despitethe strong feminine voice in the Song’s love poems. Nonetheless, if the voice of theBride is conceived of as representing the community of the faithful, both men andwomen can claim equal membership in the congregation. In the Christian Bible, theBride is also identified with the indivi...
a Malayali Syrian Christian women’s rights activist from Kerala. When she was two, her parents divorced and she returned with her mother and brother to Kerala. For a time, the family lived with Roy’s maternal grandfather in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. When she was 5, the family moved back to...
byPowerful Goddess Portraits by Sharon Birke of DoubleSmart LLCinBirthday Celebration,Glamour Portraits,Iconic Portraits,Iconic Women,Poems for Women,Women's EmpowermentTags:And Still I Rise poem,birthday tribute,Maya Angelou Most plain girls are virtuous ...
Penelope enounces rules that belong to a common ethical code that the Homeric poems have the function of preserving and teaching at the same time. These rules are consistent with the character of other statements referring to Dike. In these occurrences, the word acts as agent of social control...
Throughout, sayings from the Koran and the Old Testament are spoken as voiceover – as are some of Farrokhzad’s own poems. She’s best known for her poetry, which provide a unique window into a woman’s life in mid-century Iran and transcendent glimpses beyond. This one film of hers...
of Poetry, Ovid’s Amores, the Anglo-Saxton riddle-poems, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets to the dark lady (all celebrating the imperfect perfection of men andwomen) are rich with wry smiles and outright laughter. And this brings us to another reason for the abstract idealization of women. ...