Sentences with phrase «victorian women»

Family violence directly affects one in five Victorian women over the course of their lifetime.

It is the leading contributor to preventable death, disability and illness in Victorian women aged 15 to 44 years.

• Philip Adams, broadcaster • Kirstie Albion, CEO, Australian Youth Climate Coalition • Paul Barratt, former head, Defence Dept • Professor Judy Brett, historian • Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO, Beyond Zero Emissions • Geoff Cousins AM, President, Australian Conservation Foundation • Mary Crooks, CEO, The Victorian Women's Trust • Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate for Medicine • Ian Dunlop, former chair, Australian Coal Association • Professor Tim Flannery, palaeontologist • John Hewson, businessman and former Opposition leader • Professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, marine scientist • Professor David Karoly, atmospheric scientist • Professor Carmen Lawrence, former Western Australia premier • Dr Colin Long, Victorian Sec., National Tertiary Education Union • Professor Robert Manne, political scientist • Bill McKibben, author and co-founder, 350.org • Christine Milne, Global Greens Ambassador • Paul Oosting, CEO, GetUp • David Ritter, CEO, Greenpeace Australia • Professor Peter Singer, moral philosopher • Professor Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist • Dr John (Charlie) Veron, pioneer coral researcher • Mark Wakeham, CEO, Environment Victoria

• Philip Adams, broadcaster • Kirstie Albion, CEO, Australian Youth Climate Coalition • Paul Barratt, former head, Defence Dept • Professor Judy Brett, historian • Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO, Beyond Zero Emissions • Geoff Cousins AM, President, Australian Conservation Foundation • Mary Crooks, CEO, The Victorian Women's Trust • Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate for Medicine • Ian Dunlop, former chair, Australian Coal Association more...

Victorian women used magical potions made from ammonia, mercury and lead to achieve their wan glow.

How many more Victorian women artists are waiting to be discovered in the archives of spiritualists and old botany journals?

June 2, 2013 - August 25, 2013 Opening reception: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 3 - 5 pm Since 2003 artist Emilie Clark has inserted herself into the works and lives of Victorian women scientists and naturalists including Mary Ward, Mary Treat, Martha Maxwell, and Ellen Henrietta Richards.

Merolla's work is inspired by the practice of hairwork in which Victorian women honored deceased loved ones by turning their hair into chic bits of jewelry.

Since 2003 artist Emilie Clark has inserted herself into the works and lives of Victorian women scientists and naturalists including Mary Ward, Mary Treat, Martha Maxwell, and Ellen Henrietta Richards.

Victorian women, on the other hand, desired a smaller version of the Manchester and a toy was developed by repeatedly breeding the smallest of the standard Manchester's.

One day I was just surfing the internet, looking up information about both 19th century Russia and Victorian women.

Resources to support the revision of Victorian context including: - gentlemanly behaviour - Victorian women - Victorian society - Victorian Holidays - Victorian England Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Video clip links included to support student revision.

Hartnett will play Ethan Chandler, a fake American cowboy who impresses Victorian women, but has a dark side, Showtime president David Nevins said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Tuesday.

Living in a constant state of anxiety and perfectionism isn't always as extreme as it sounds, but if you date us, you should know these things first: The burden of sexual stereotyping bore down even more heavily on Victorian women whose lives were plagued with nervous illness.

The burden of sexual stereotyping bore down even more heavily on Victorian women whose lives were plagued with nervous illness.

Due to the cultural expectations for a «respectable» mourner, middle - and upper - class Victorian women felt obligated to wear an uncomfortable, unhealthy piece of clothing, such that the death of a loved one could cause a woman to risk her own health.

Another Aussie international goalkeeper to ditch football was Brianna Davey, who took up Australian Rules with St Kilda Sharks in the Victorian Women's Football League in the winter of 2015 after missing out on selection for the Women's World Cup.

Victorian women, confined to the private, domestic sphere, were idealized as the incarnation of a higher and better humanity; males, split between the private personalized life and the public competitive life, were considered less moral, less spiritual, less altruistic and sensitive, and needing the «feminine touch» to humanize them.

She was thus exposed to ideas few Victorian women were.

Florence Pugh gives one of the best performances of the year as a Victorian woman who takes drastic action after being sold into marital slavery.

A skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time - travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.

This nonfiction book chronicles the life of a Victorian woman who is put on trial for adultery.

I thought that the mix of mystery, romance and a peek into the life of a Victorian woman made this a great read, especially for the summer.

Among the works featured will be a site - specific installation by Harding and the latest video by Copeland, a sequel to an earlier piece in which The Victorian Woman Wrestles «THE MAN.»

Women's Work features must - see artists Chesley Antoinette and Rachel Muldez, and Colette Copeland will be debuting the final installment of her The Victorian Woman and The MAN series, titled Bearding.

Last chance to enter the wild and wonderful world of the Victorian woman who made art that she attributed to the dead.

Not exact matches

For example, if a company imposed Victorian standards on women but put no limits at all on what men could wear, that would be unfairly discriminatory.

This new title applies the same strengths to a broader subject — the history of contemporary economic thought — by focusing on the men and women who shaped it, from Victorian England through the end of the 20th century.

Cyan was 2015 Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year, Australian Financial Review's 2016 100 Women of Influence Enterprise Winner, and Envato was awarded Job Advisor's Coolest Company for Diversity in 2016.

Case in point: I happen to be a proud member of the rearguard of the Victorian Age, imbued with both reverence for women and old - fashioned romance, sentiments that find expression in kissing the hands of dates and women friends.

With one hand, she tore down the Victorian assumptions that relegated woman to the home and, with the other, she upheld the sacred role of wife and mother, while maintaining that «the responsibilities of men and women were complimentary and parallel, not dependent and hierarchical.»

That «double standard,» along with the Victorian idea that women were passionless, placed 20th century men at a substantial advantage over women.

His mother was of Huguenot stock, a woman of simple Victorian tastes with a deep dislike of pomp and circumstance.

The Bishop made a vigorous, polished but superficial speech attacking Darwin's theory and concluded by trying to win the sympathy of the audience with an appeal to Victorian sentimentality concerning women.

After the Second World War, pastors like Peter Marshall continued to inculcate a Victorian code and the family ideals associated with it; but the life of men and women in the 1950s bore little resemblance to the lives of Victorian men and women for whom the complementarity of the sexes was a part of daily life experience.

«In this stilling atmosphere,» Glenn writes of the Victorian era, «the development of competitive golf for women was a bold stroke.

I met this scientist, and I asked her that what her research is shows, is that if you took a Victorian era man (used to women in total dress, getting turned on by ankles and so on), that they would see our society as pornographic in nature, they would see the way women dress as we would see Youporn or whatever.

During the Victorian era upper class women were encouraged to get eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and stay away from hot food.

Tight corseting was encouraged during the Victorian Era, often up and through the six month of pregnancy, so that the woman could hide her condition and remain active in the social scene.

During the Victorian era, pregnant women were often considered too fragile to give birth in the traditional way.

By the Victorian era the perception that women were too fragile for the rigors of childbirth became common.

During the Victorian era in the mid to late 1800s, affluent women rarely breastfed their own children and hired out the «work» to a wet nurse.

Pregnant women were expected to stay out of polite society in Victorian times because the sight of a swollen belly was considered offensive.

A new partnership between the Women's, La Trobe University and three other Victorian public hospitals is giving pregnant Indigenous women greater access to «gold standard» maternity Women's, La Trobe University and three other Victorian public hospitals is giving pregnant Indigenous women greater access to «gold standard» maternity women greater access to «gold standard» maternity care.

Dr. Suzanne Gilberg - Lenz, the OB - GYN expert on momlogic.com, finds the whole thing an ironic twist on America's history of breastfeeding, which includes black wet nurses forced to breastfeed the slave owners» children during slavery and Victorian - era women who paid other women to nurse their children so they didn't have to be stuck at home.

Yet, three miles away in Manor Park cemetery, Sarah Chapman, the leading light of the Matchwomen's union and one of the first working - class women to attend the «boys» club» of the Victorian TUC, is buried in a pauper's grave with four others.

As described in The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On - line Pioneers, the telegraph offered ambitious young men (and sometimes women) entry into a technological elite — a classic meritocracy.

Labour MP Diana Johnson said it was «really depressing» and accused Caulfield of «arguing for women to still be covered by Victorian laws».

In Victorian times, such individuals even considered anaesthesia during childbirth to be the end of civilisation as they knew it because of a biblical injunction that women ought to give birth in pain.

Could it be that the Victorian values of his time, when men tipped their hats and made other exaggerated displays of sensitivity to women, subtly affected Darwin's scientific thinking, leading him to attribute a veto power to females in matters of sexual negotiations?