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Multicultural Shakespeare, 2022 Shakespeare’s comedies mark his artistic excellence in the portrayal of woman characters. Shakespearean women have invariably moved the audience and their understanding towards them from being sweet and mawkish to expressing their needs sternly for ...
Mitashree Tripathy
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The Beautiful and Dangerous: A New Depiction of Heroines in North American Television Drama Series
Medijske Studije, 2016 Television drama series are nowadays one of the most common television formats in the entertainment program genre. On the one hand, heroes and heroines of these series mirror social and cultural realities and changes, whereas on the other, they offer ...
Irena Sever Globan, Antonija Pavić
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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De Créuse à Médée (selon le Peintre de Darius)
Medea, 2016 Les héroïnes de tragédies ont un statut spécial dans le monde figuré du Peintre de Darius. C’est le cas de Médée et de Créuse (mère d’Ion) auxquelles le céramographe apulien réserve de véritables « épiphanies ».
Françoise-Hélène Massa-Pairault
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
Synthesis (La Plata)In ancient Greek tragedy, the physical pain of male bodies is often depicted. Nonetheless, there are only a few examples of female bodies in pain. Tragic heroines rarely or never refer to their somatic anguish.
Vasiliki Kousoulini
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich +4 more
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Antecedentes literarios en la ‘niña mala’ de Mario Vargas Llosa
Rassegna Iberistica, 2017 This article analyzes the literary antecedents and personality of La niña mala (2006) main character. In our opinion, the author takes three heroines of French Literature as a model for his character: Marguerite Gautier – a character who gives life to
García Calle, Martin Eduardo
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El espacio femenino en la narrativa de las Antillas francesas: autoras y heroínas representativas
Anales de Filología Francesa, 2012 Aprèslanaissancedelalittératurefrancophone des Antilles, nous assistons au développement tardif du point de vue des femmes écrivains. Nous devons attendre les années 70, pour voir proliférer dans toute sa grandeur une littérature savante féminine de ...
Isaac David Cremades Cano
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