`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

`` 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.

A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

Women with alcoholism are more likely to have a history of physical or sexual assault, abuse and domestic violence than those in the general population, which can lead to higher instances of psychiatric disorders and greater dependence on alcohol.

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Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ( The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Amazon Women on the Moon being just two examples ).

* Barnard Center for Research on Women

Women of the Right: Comparisons and Interplay Across Borders ( Penn State University Press ; 2012 ) 312 pages ; scholarly essays giving a global perspective on women in right-wing politics.

" Two Women Chatting By The Sea ," St. Thomas, ( 1856 ) Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830 on the island of St. Thomas to Frederick and Rachel Pissarro.

Women are typically not eligible to teach in formal gatherings of the ecclesia when male believers are present, and do not sit on the main ecclesial arranging ( organising ) committees.

* Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution, edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook ( 1978 )

* Blanche Wiesen Cook, ed., Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution.

* National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women ( Canada )

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present, Quill.

* King, Margaret L. Women of the Renaissance ( 1991 ) excerpt and text search

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England ( 2007 ) 459p.

* Notable Medieval and Renaissance Women

* Herzig, Tamar, Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents.

During the Renaissance, Boccaccio, a 14th century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris ( Latin for On Famous Women ).

Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World.

), Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation.

Writing of Women: Essays in a Renaissance.

In 1994, Lawless appeared in " Hercules and the Amazon Women ," a Pacific Renaissance Pictures made-for-television film that became the television pilot for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Women of the Harlem Renaissance, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Between 1997 and 2000, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the WWP developed " Renaissance Women Online ," a project studying the impact of electronic texts on teaching and research.

* Q. Mazzonis, " The Impact of Renaissance Gender-Related Notions on the Female Experience of the Sacred: The Case of Angela Merici's Ursulines ," in Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen Mangion ( eds ), Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 ( Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ),

Among the notable Renaissance works on display are an outstanding collection of 15th and 16th century Florentine paintings by Paolo Uccello, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli and Andrea del Sarto and, from the High Renaissance, Giambologna's original plaster for the Rape of the Sabine Women.

* Interdisciplinary programs include African and African American Studies, American Studies, Arab American Studies, Criminal Justice, General Studies, Law and Society, Liberal Studies, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Religious Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Women and Gender Studies.

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England ( 2007 ) 459p.

* Helen Nader: ( Editor ), Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650.

* Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque ( March 16, 2007 – July 15, 2007 )

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England ( 2007 ) 459p.

The 106 Famous Women biographies are of mythological and historical women, as well as some of Boccaccio's Renaissance contemporaries.

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present.