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Which was considered
the more controversial painting, Cabanal's Birth of Venus or
Manet's Olympia? Why?
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How can Cassatt's
painting, The Bath have anything in common with Manet's Olympia?
(Click on Olympia for the answers to both questions.)
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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
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TAKE
A QUIZ!!!! How well were you taught
a balanced and fair account of history?
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Everything that deceives
may be said to enchant. - Plato
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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.
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When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss
gazes into you. - Nietzsche
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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.
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She was the first woman to be executed by the
government of the United States. Visit her house,
read a case
study.
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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.
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Was Karla
Faye Tucker executed for her
crimes or because of her gender?
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It is better to die on your feet, then live
on your knees. - D. Ibarruri
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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. continue |
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The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) From the Nag
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Mary Magdelene's spirituality, which here seems more consistent with the teachings of Christ, is unheard of today. |
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The Many Images of
the Biblical Judith
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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
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