Sentences with phrase «important women in history»

After all, we're always looking to learn more about important women in history, especially since their stories can be harder to find in your average school textbook.

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Because of the history of women in this country — and even more so in this time we live in — it is important to protect and foster the work of The Wing and similar space that give women a positive and safe space to thrive,» said Gelman in a statement.

While the U.S. has no shortage of questionable holidays (hello, National Rum Day), Women's Equality Day is a vitally important day for roughly half of the country's population, with real roots in American history.

«A couple months ago I felt that we had entered an important moment in the history of this country... We were finally beginning to listen to women,» he said in his resignation speech on the chamber floor.

«This picture by [an ultra-Orthodox] newspaper goes a step further by revising history to remove important women leaders from the historic room in which they were present.

A course by Amy Oden, «Women Speak of God,» features a series of readings from important women in church hisWomen Speak of God,» features a series of readings from important women in church hiswomen in church history.

Now it is the declaration of Christian faith that the important event in history, so far as men and women are concerned, is the appearance in the world of Jesus of Nazareth.

Heritage Park shares the stories of Western Canada's past, but until now, the Park was missing one very important chapter; Women in History.

The district was trying to increase the number of women honored by park names, she said, and was researching important women in Chicago history.

Additionally, breastfeeding moms are less likely to develop diabetes later in life, which is especially important for women who develop gestational diabetes or have a family history of this disease.

«We understand this is an important moment in our history and we want to continue to encourage women to come forward.

Cuomo said the change is important because domestic violence and threats against women are linked to nine out of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, including the shootings this year in Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, Texas.

«We understand this is an important moment in our history, and we want to continue to encourage women to come forward,» they said.

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

They suggest that these results highlight the importance of the recruitment of local women and conversion in the formation of Ashkenazi communities in Europe and represent an important step in the reconstruction of Ashkenazi genealogical history.

Suffragette dramatizes an important moment in history when the women's rights movement made a dramatic impression on the British public.

Suffragette dramatizes an important moment in history when the women's rights movement made a dramatic impression on the British...

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Contemporary women whose accomplishments echo important themes in womenâ $ ™ s history are featured as well as biographies of influential women in history.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

It's National Women's History Month — a perfect time to introduce your students to important female figures in history What their lives tell uHistory Month — a perfect time to introduce your students to important female figures in history What their lives tell uhistory What their lives tell us is...

It's also fitting that a bridge honouring the female half of the world is in a neighbourhood where most of its streets are named after important women in Argentine history, like Alicia Moreau de Justo, the wife of Argentine political leader and writer Juan B. Justo (who has his own street in Palermo).

Five of the artists in «Queer Fantasy» are women, which Simmons says is important because he wants this history to be «supplemented by these voices that haven't really been heard so far.»

Over the course of her 15 - year tenure at MoMA, Respini organized major retrospectives as well as important thematic exhibitions such as Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography and Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960.

Interested in women's extensive history with textiles, VanDerBeek connects the lace shadows rising and fading from the dusky blue light in her images with the intermingling of past and present, a continuum connecting generations of women who have played important roles in the livelihood of their families, from Ancient Greece to the Industrial Revolution.

WHO: Pratt Institute's Department of History of Art and Design and Department of Fine Arts will present a film titled a woman like that, which explores the dramatic life and work of 17th Century female artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who is considered one of the most important female artists in hHistory of Art and Design and Department of Fine Arts will present a film titled a woman like that, which explores the dramatic life and work of 17th Century female artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who is considered one of the most important female artists in historyhistory.

Firelei Báez, whose work has long been interested in the representation of women, particularly Afro - Caribbean / Afro - Latina women, reimagines important women of color in history in conversation through imaginative portraits.

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: Well, I did this film called Strange Culture [2007] that helped to get the charges dropped against an artist, [Steve Kurtz, who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of bioterrorism,] and then I did Woman Art Revolution [2010], which inserted a history [of women in art] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to add.

On view June 12, 2016 through Sept. 25, 2016, the exhibition presents a nuanced profile of women working on the East and West Coasts during the 1940s and»50s, providing scholars and audiences with a new perspective on this important chapter in art history.

«As an organization, we recognize the important role that trailblazing women have played in the development of the visual arts as a field,» ArtTable's board president, Jennifer Rissler, said in a statement released to press, «and we are delighted that Ada, who has been a leader in our community for many years, is stepping into the role of director at this exciting moment in ArtTable's history.»

It sheds light on key topics in these artists» works, but also the specific history of the gallery and its connection to these important female figures of an art that subtly addresses women's roles in very different ways...

As Cesarine emphasizes, these women are important not just to women's history, but to history in general.

In battles with everything from reproductive rights to immigration, women can look to history for examples of how other trailblazers won important fights.

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The other artists in this exhibit have equally important roles in the history of the San Francisco avant - garde: Sonia Gechtoff (the first woman to have a solo show at Ferus Gallery in L.A.), Hassel Smith and Bruce Conner.

Rebecca's photographs were featured in many important exhibitions including A History of Women Photographers at the New York Public Library (1996) and Radical Camera: New York's Photo League at the Jewish Museum (2011).

When I spoke to Chicago last year, she pointed out: «The monographs on artists, permanent collections and major exhibitions are really the path into history, and that's what is important to look at, and not be deceived by the many women showing at entry level in smaller and regional museums and galleries.»

The images depict openings, artworks and other important moments in the history of Palestinian art: Ismail Shamout's 1954 solo exhibition in Cairo; women in furs looking at paintings by Laila Shawa at Kuwait's Sultan Gallery in 1972; 14 artists posing together at the «First Spring» exhibition at Jerusalem's al - Hakawati space in 1985; scenes from al - Ma» mal's «Among Artists» exhibition in Ramallah in 1995; and Mona Hatoum's glowing, red globe from her 2009 solo show in Venice at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia.

Her identity as a mixed - race, Thai - American woman is an important part of the work she makes, working against a history of colonialism, otherness, and patriarchy in documentary tradition.

In 2002, Mona Blocker Garcia took on the task of creating the foundation for mature women artists and healthful aging, thus preserving the important history of Fort D. A. Russell to its exact state when the fort closed.

The Russian Avant Garde was an important moment in Modern Art history for Schapiro to reflect on because women were seen as equals.

It is important to the history of women in architecture.

Justice Ginsburg has been called the «Thurgood Marshall» of women's rights, and while that moniker elides important differences in history, context, personality, etc., it certainly captures the significance of her role.

The most important take home message for clinicians is that juvenile onset depression that recurred in adulthood was characterised by a higher proportion of women, internalising problems, temperamental inhibition, adult anxiety, and history of parental loss in childhood than juvenile onset depression that did not recur in adulthood.

Like the woman, also the man lives the pregnancy and the childbirth such as a phase of psychological restructuration and he confronts himself with his personal and family history.56 But, unlike the woman, the man does not experience an emotional exchange with the child during the pregnancy or after the childbirth and he establish the relation in the two months after the childbirth.57, 58 They experience important changes and they have more difficulty to begin a good affective relationship with the child than the mothers that establish it after the childbirth.