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Talent has no race, has no face - but it has a skin colour: The ‘appropriate femininity’ with the case of Kurdish-Swedish Actress Evin Ahmad [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Research Europe, 2023
Sexist and misogynist attitudes towards actresses in the mainstream film industry and other media have been the target of feminists for decades. Stigmatized and stereotyped images of immigrants on the screen have also been scrutinized.
Özlem Belçim Galip
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Ideal yet Actual: Actresses Posing as Antique Heroines in Late-Victorian “Classical” Portraits

open access: yesInterfaces
The late-Victorian neoclassical artists George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton and Edward Poynter posed three famous actresses, Ellen Terry, Dorothy Dene and Lillie Langtry, in paintings whose subjects were drawn from Antiquity.
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
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Representaciones de la actriz y discursos de género en la cultura visual del Romanticismo español

open access: yesCuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2021
This study explores the redefinition of the professional actress’s identity as a «lady of the stage» in the context of Spanish romantic theatre, focusing on the role played by visual culture in such a process. In the context of the different
Sandra Gomez Todó
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La comédienne dell’arte et son public au XVIIe siècle : un modèle dramaturgique et sa réception

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2022
The article aims to study the first professional Italian actresses from the end of the sixteenth century to the early seventeenth century, and makes several hypotheses about female spectators.
Cécile Berger
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María García, Clori, la actriz bonapartista

open access: yesCuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2021
María García, whom Moratín celebrated in his verses under the name of Clori, was the most relevant actress in Madrid during the reign of José Bonaparte.
Fernando Doménech Rico
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Construir y relevar a una gran dama de la escena: Concepción Rodríguez y Matilde Díez (1800-1836)

open access: yesCuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2021
This paper focuses on Concepción Rodríguez’s personal and artistic trajectory, between 1800 and 1836. She was one of the greatest Spanish actresses in the first few decades of the 19th century and she became a model and a ...
Guadalupe Soria Tomás
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En pos de la Reina. Los personajes femeninos y sus actrices en las funciones de jura y proclamación de 1833

open access: yesCuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2021
Swearing-In and Proclamation of Isabel II, in 1833, different cities organize theatrical performances. In them the female characters and the female actors who represent them are very important because they evoke, directly or indirectly, the ...
Montserrat Ribao Pereira
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Le signore della festa a veglia e a corte

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2022
The active participation of women in performances and festive life, as entertainers, spectators and performers, has always been a sensitive cultural and social indicator, involving above all the aristocratic elites, and traditionally arousing mistrust ...
Marzia Pieri
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Forgotten Encounters: The Legacy of Sculptresses and Female Muses

open access: yesABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2023
Sculpture as a medium is inherently connected to legacy making. In producing three- dimensional monuments designed to withstand the test of time, women artists provided evidence of the lasting quality and permanence of their creative acts.
Laura Engel
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Cast Me not as a Succubus or a Jezebel: Nollywood Actresses and the Struggle against Women Stereotyping

open access: yesInkanyiso, 2021
The stereotyping and sexual objectification of womanhood in Nollywood films have partly been attributed to Nigerian actresses. According to a number of critics and scholars, female actors’ passivity and complicity are to blame for the continuous negative
Floribert P.C. Endong
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