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 ).

Women ’ s kabuki, called onna-kabuki, was banned in 1629 for being too erotic.

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.

* October 21 – Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

He advocated women's suffrage for the new government, writing an article for Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.

Women gained suffrage on the federal level in 1971.

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The suffrage organization NAWSA became the League of Women Voters and Alice Paul's National Woman's Party began lobbying for full equality and the Equal Rights Amendment which would pass Congress during the second wave of the women's movement in 1972 ( but it was not ratified and never took effect ).

Women wrote about how the experience made them feel in letters, diaries, speeches and suffrage publications, including Votes for Women and The Suffragette.

He was an early advocate for women's rights and suffrage, founding in 1890 the Belgian League for the Rights of Women.

Women did not achieve full suffrage in Switzerland until 1971 ( in one canton until 1990 ), alone with neighboring Liechtenstein, the only European country to limit women's voting rights at the time.

# Extending the Right to Vote to Women, who previously did not enjoy suffrage.

Women consolidated their gains after the success of the suffrage movement, and moved into causes such as world peace, good government, maternal care ( the Sheppard – Towner Act of 1921 ), and local support for education and public health.

" The article on the 1920 granting of women's suffrage states " Women Finally Allowed to Participate in Meaningless Fiction of Democracy.

He advocated women's suffrage for the new government, writing an article for Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.

After a phase inspired by Japanese women's suffrage, which produced radical films like Victory of the Women ( 1946 ) and My Love Has Been Burning ( 1949 ), Mizoguchi took a turn to the jidai-geki — or period drama, re-made from stories from Japanese folklore or period history — together with long-time screenwriter and collaborator Yoshikata Yoda.

Women in Britain finally achieved suffrage on the same terms as men in 1928.

In 1876 she founded the Société le droit des femmes ( The Rights of Women ) that supported women's suffrage and in 1883, the organization formally changed its name to the Société le suffrage des femmes ( Women's Suffrage Society ).

In 1878, the " International Congress on Women ’ s Rights " was held in Paris but to the chagrin of Hubertine Auclert, it did not support women ’ s suffrage.

In 1900, she witnessed the establishment of the " National Council of French Women " as an umbrella organisation for feminist groups in France all of which soon came to support suffrage.

Women associated with the party staged a suffrage parade on March 3, 1913, the day before Wilson's inauguration.

The organization of the National Association of Colored Women helped all African-American women by working on issues of civil rights and injustice, such as women ’ s suffrage, lynching, and Jim Crow laws.

Women put women's suffrage on Iowa's agenda, particularly the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Hamilton wrote A Pageant of Great Women, a highly successful women's suffrage play based on the ideas of her friend, the theatre director Edith Craig.

The League of Women Voters, 40 now and admitting it proudly, is inviting financial contributions in the windup of its fund drive.

This Association, organized in 1920, is affiliated with the Athletic Federation of College Women.

`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

The event is the sixth on the annual calendar of the local members of the National Council of Jewish Women.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

The ACM is a co – presenter and founding partner of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ( GHC ) with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Charlotte is quite aware of her husband's infidelity, but Carl-Magnus is too absorbed in his suspicions of Desiree to talk to her (" In Praise of Women ").

The microfinance sector is also subject to supervision through the Central Bank as well as the responsible Ministry for Microfinance and Employment of Youth and Women.

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.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

P contains all the extant plays of Euripides, L is missing The Trojan Women and latter part of The Bacchae.

Thus for example two extant plays, The Phoenicean Women and Iphigenia at Aulis, are significantly corrupted by interpolations ( the latter possibly being completed post mortem by the poet's son ) and the very authorship of Rhesus is a matter of dispute.

* Women were allowed to succeed ( but there existed no known children of theirs whose father did not also happen to be an agnate of the imperial house, thus there is neither a precedent that a child of an imperial woman with a non-imperial man could inherit, nor a precedent forbidding it for children of empresses ).

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

* 1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

Women fear the pain of re-opening the vagina, and are afraid of being discovered if it is opened illicitly.

Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.