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.

In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ), the first Expressionist play ( produced with scandal in 1909 ), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, his first composition " without a tonal center ".

Both the Men ’ s and Women ’ s Basketball teams were undefeated for two straight years in regular season play ( 2006 – 07, 2007 – 08 ) and went on to capture silver at the national championships in 2007-08.

* A Houseful of Women ( radio play ), broadcast, 1961.

Antigone also plays a role in Euripides extant play The Phoenician Women.

The debt however was mutual and Bacchylides borrowed from tragedy for some of his effects – thus Ode 16, with its myth of Deianeira, seems to assume audience knowledge of Sophocles's play, Women of Trachis, and Ode 18 echoes three plays – Aeschylus's Persians and Suppliants and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.

In Euripides ' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B. C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “ For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death ; whence in days to come men shall tell of ' the wooden horse ,' with its hidden load of warriors .”

Spassky continued to play occasional events through much of the 1990s, such as the Veterans versus Women series.

* Euripides ' play The Trojan Women is performed shortly after the massacre by Athenians of the male population of Melos.

* Euripides ' play The Suppliant Women is performed.

She is the main character in the play Women of Trachis by Sophocles.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

In a lost play by Aeschylus, Danaan Women, he defines the original homeland of the Pelasgians as the region around Mycenae.

In a lost play by Aeschylus, Danaan Women, he defines the original homeland of the Pelasgians as the region around Mycenae.

Wendy Wasserstein's 1977 play, Uncommon Women and Others, is based upon Wasserstein's experiences at Mount Holyoke of the early 1970s.

Aristophanes ' Ecclesiazusae (, Ekklesiazousai ; translated as Assemblywomen, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, and A Parliament of Women ) is a play dating from 391 BCE which is similar in theme to Lysistrata in that a large portion of the comedy comes from women involving themselves in politics.

In 2002, she also landed a role in the indie comedy Igby Goes Down, and her turn in the theatrical production of Clare Booth Luce's play The Women was captured for PBS ' Stage On Screen series.

Women primarily play on a semi-professional or amateur level in the United States.

* Part of a Felix cartoon was played in the 2002 film 100 Women, by a projector that Sam was using to play the cartoon on Hope's building.

Women were almost unheard of in the ranks of leading orchestral conductors through most of the 19th and 20th centuries – there are remarkable and sobering accounts of orchestras refusing to play for them – but today, artists like Marin Alsop and Simone Young have decisively broken the gender barrier, to the point that gender neutrality is conceivable in the field and musicians increasingly regard gender as a non-issue.

A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull.

Helen Deutsch informed us ( The Psychology Of Women, Vol. 2,, 434 ) that in all cultures `` the term ' stepmother ' automatically evokes deprecatory implications '', a conclusion accepted by many.

Women in all social stations, even the working-class woman, could own a small piece of costume jewelry.

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.

Later, while explaining his developing " Grecian style " for paintings such as The Intervention of the Sabine Women, David further commented on a shift in attitude: " In all human activity the violent and transitory develops first ; repose and profundity appear last.

In 1872, the dispensary became the New Hospital for Women and Children, treating women from all over London for gynaecological conditions ; the hospital moved to new premises in Marleybone Street in 1874.

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

He seems not to have used it in his early plays at all, The Trojan Women being the earliest appearance of it in an extant play-it's symptomatic of a curious archaizing tendency evident in his later works.

* UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ).

The Act aims to provide 3-tier system of Panchayati Raj for all States having population of over 2 million, to hold Panchayat elections regularly every 5 years, to provide reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women, to appoint State Finance Commission to make recommendations as regards the financial powers of the Panchayats and to constitute District Planning Committee to prepare draft development plan for the district.

Women may not lead prayers other than if it is an all female group ( among native Muslims in China ( Hui ), women have traditionally been trained as, and practice, the role of imam among female-only congregations ; these are often the wives of imams ( see Nusi )).

The Committee for the Study of the Legal Status of Women sought to inquire into the status of women all over the world.

Women have lower pain perception and tolerance thresholds than men, and this sex difference appears to apply to all ages, including newborn infants.

Speaking at the Ninth National Women ’ s Rights Convention on May 12, 1859, Anthony asked " Where, under our Declaration of Independence, does the Saxon man get his power to deprive all women and Negroes of their inalienable rights?

Accepting Aradia as the source of skyclad practice, Robert Chartowich points to the 1998 Pazzaglini translation of these lines, which read " Men and Women / You will all be naked, until / Yet he shall be dead, the last / Of your oppressors is dead.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

The title, Così fan tutte, literally means " Thus do all " but it is often rendered as " Women are like that ".

Dr. Rubinow states that “ the Women ’ s Health Initiative study led to the mistaken belief that estrogen replacement therapy is bad for all women.

She shunned an invitation to participate in the Women ’ s Building as she said none of her research was just women ’ s work, but rather information for all.

As Natya Shastra states the qualities required of a female dancer narthaki, " Women who have beautiful limbs, are conversant with the sixty-four arts and crafts ( kala ), are clever, courteous in behaviour, free from female diseases, always bold, free from indolence, inured to hard work, capable of practising various arts and crafts, skilled in dancing and songs, who excel by their beauty, youthfulness, brilliance and other qualities all other women standing by, are known as female dancers

Women might act in all these capacities.

Women and children of all ethnicities were often found panning next to the men.

Jo is the most popular and remembered of all the characters in Little Women.

This division signaled a beginning of polarization of gender roles social constructs “ as class stratification increased .” Joy Kasson wrote that “ Alcott chronicled the coming of age of young girls, their struggles with issues such as selfishness and generosity, the nature of individual integrity, and, above all, the question of their place in the world around them .” Girls were able to relate to the March sisters in Little Women along with following the lead of their heroines by assimilating aspects of the story into their own lives.

“ Little Women indisputably enlarges the myth of American womanhood by insisting that the home and the women ’ s sphere cherish individuality and thus produce young adults who can make their way in the world while preserving a critical distance from its social arrangements .” As with all youth, the March girls had to grow up.

Alcott “ made women ’ s rights integral to her stories, and above all to Little Women .” Alcott ’ s fiction became her “ most important feminist contribution ”— even considering all the effort Alcott made to help facilitate women ’ s rights.