An Eclectic View of Women
 
Which was considered the more controversial painting, Cabanal's Birth of Venus or Manet's Olympia? Why?
How can Cassatt's painting, The Bath have anything in common with Manet's Olympia? (Click on Olympia for the answers to both questions.)
   
 
 
 
 
Culture, as we know it, is patriarchy’s self-image. The history of representation is the history of the male gender representing it self to itself. - Susanne Kappeler

 

Men their rights and nothing more;

women their rights and nothing less.

 
TAKE A QUIZ!!!! How well were you taught a balanced and fair account of history?
   
     
     
     
 
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. - Plato
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Investigate her past.
 
When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you. - Nietzsche
Elizabeth Short was a young, single woman in California who will be remembered in perpetuity not for the way she lived, but for the way she died.
She was the first woman to be executed by the government of the United States. Visit her house, read a case study.
She wrote poetry while on the run and when news of their violent demise hit the front pages, she was listed only as the female companion of her more notorious partner.
Was Karla Faye Tucker executed for her crimes or because of her gender?
It is better to die on your feet, then live on your knees. - D. Ibarruri
 

   
 
Susanna, chapter 1
1: There was a man living in Babylon whose name was Joakim.
2: And he took a wife named Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, a very beautiful woman and one who feared the Lord.
3: Her parents were righteous, and had taught their daughter according to the law of Moses.

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The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)

From the Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson.

Mary Magdelene's spirituality, which here seems more consistent with the teachings of Christ, is unheard of today.

Read the surviving text

The Many Images of the Biblical Judith
       
Click on each thumbnail image to view.
       

The Book of Judith, chapter 13

1: When evening came, his slaves quickly withdrew, and Bagoas closed the tent from outside and shut out the attendants from his master's presence; and they went to bed, for they all were weary because the banquet had lasted long.
2: So Judith was left alone in the tent , with Holofernes stretched out on his bed, for he was overcome with wine.
3: Now Judith had told her maid to stand outside the bedchamber and to wait for her to come out, as she did every day; for she said she would be going out for her prayers. And she had said the same thing to Bagoas.


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