Chaste widows were revered as heroes during the Ming and Qing periods, and were deemed so central to China ’ s culture and the fate of all peoples, the Yongle Emperor distributed 10, 000 copies of the Biographies of Exemplary Women ( Lienü Zhuan ) to various non-Chinese countries for their moral instruction.

* M. Bell Mirabella discusses Christine ’ s ability to refute the patriarchal discourse in her article Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies ( in The European Journal of Women ’ s Studies, 1999 ).

* Karlyn Kohrs Campbell presents an interesting argument about Christine ’ s ability to create a female-oriented dialogue in her lecture Three Tall Women: Radical Challenges to Criticism, Pedagogy, and Theory ( The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, National Communication Association, 2001 ).

Elizabeth joined the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, which organized Blackwell ’ s lectures on “ Medicine as a Profession for Ladies ” and set up a private meeting between Elizabeth and the doctor.

The first death due to cholera occurred in 1866, but by then Elizabeth had already opened St. Mary ’ s Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place.

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

* 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women ’ s Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS ).

" Women ’ s testimony is in general light and subject to variation ; this is why it is taken more seriously than that of men " as opposed to men, upon whom " Nature seems to have conferred … the right to govern.

Women were, nonetheless, " denied political rights of ‘ active citizenship ’ ( 1791 ) and democratic citizenship ( 1793 ).

* Woshinsky, Barbara R. Imaging Women ’ s Conventual Spaces in France, 1600 – 1800: The Cloister Disclosed.

( Opper ’ s Happy Hooligan would provide the visual inspiration for Gelsomina in Fellini's 1954 film La strada ; McCay ’ s Little Nemo would directly influence his 1980 film City of Women.

During the autumn, Fellini researched and developed a treatment based on a film adaptation of Mario Tobino ’ s novel, The Free Women of Magliano.

In 1921 – 22, the Bradleys made their first trip to central Africa, which later contributed to Sheldon ’ s short story, " The Women Men Don't See.

In “ The Women Men Don ’ t See ,” Sheldon gives a feminist story a unique spin by making the narrator, Don Fenton, a male.

As Francis states, “‘ The Women Men Don ’ t See ’ is an outstanding example … of the subversive use of genre fiction to produce an unconventional discursive position, the feminist subject ” ( 38 ).

In 1879, a Methodist woman, Frances E. Willard, was voted to the presidency of the Women ’ s Christian Temperance Union, an organization which was characterized by heavy Methodist participation.

To this day, the Women ’ s Division of the General Board of Global Missions holds property across on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, which was built using funds provided by laypeople.

Home to the Mystics, the Mount competes in the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association ( ACAA ) in Women ’ s and Men ’ s Basketball, Soccer and Women ’ s Volleyball.

an amusing character pas de cinq called `` Gossiping Women '' ; ;

In addition to the Conservatory, AFI has a tuition-free program called the AFI Directing Workshop for Women that operates each spring and summer from the Los Angeles campus.

Women born in these years are called hinoeuma, and believed to be unmarriageable and to bring bad luck to their father or husband.

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict.

Women interested in Yaoi are called " Fujoshi " ( 腐女子 ), a pun which translate loosely as " rotten girl " or " rotten woman ".

* 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force ( WAF ).

Women are accorded full status as renunciates and are often called sadhvi, the feminine of the term often used for male munis, sadhu.

It was originally called The State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

Women and children may be called to kokwet meetings to give evidence but otherwise do not attend.

Women who did not enter the military were aggressively called upon to take industrial jobs left by men, in order to continue national productivity.

The fourth chapter ( or sura ) of the Qur ' an is called Women ( An-Nisa ).

Arthur Schopenhauer has been accused of misogyny for his essay " On Women " ( Über die Weiber ), in which he expressed his opposition to what he called " Teutonico-Christian stupidity " on female affairs.

Women participate in the service and bimah activities but are not called up to read from the Torah.

In 1981, she launched a bilingual magazine called Payam-e-Zan ( Women ’ s Message ).

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

If anything they slow you down " or " I went to one of these so called Gentlemens ' clubs and was shocked to see it was full of Women.

Women can be appointed to the Canadian Senate, an achievement by five Canadian women called the Famous Five.

A publication called The Woman's Era launched a series of articles on " Eminent Women " with a profile of Tubman.

On Carnival Thursday ( called " Old Women Day " or " The Women's Day "), in commemoration of an 1824 revolt by washer-women, women storm city halls, cut men's ties, and are allowed to kiss any man who passes their way.

The origins of European engagement in marriage practice is found in the Jewish law ( Torah ), first exemplified by Abraham, and outlined in the last Talmudic tractate of the Nashim ( Women ) order, where marriage consists of two separate acts, called erusin ( or kiddushin, meaning sanctification

Io's father was called Peiren in the Catalogue of Women, and this figure might be a son of the elder Argus also called Peiras, Peiranthus or Peirasus in other sources.