Bad women show their badness by talking, which is unwomanly and hence wicked.
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Nobody needed to know how gross and unwomanly me and my bowels were.
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They're surely try the opposite tactic, and accuse her of being unwomanly and more.
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The shock and sadness in "The Unwomanly Face of War" are, at times, crushing.
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THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR: An Oral History of Women in World War II, by Svetlana Alexievich.
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Older people recall the horror and glory of the second world war, the subject of her "War's Unwomanly Face".
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THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR An Oral History of Women in World War II By Svetlana Alexievich 331 pp.
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Books of The Times THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WARAn Oral History of Women in World War IIBy Svetlana Alexievich.
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The Unwomanly Face of War , by Svetlana Alexievich, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Random House) .
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The Alexievich of "The Unwomanly Face of War" is not all that different from the hundreds of women she interviews.
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As both the erotic thriller and its parent, 1940s film noir, argue, even the femme fatale's more mundane preferences should be interpreted as unwomanly.
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In her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich sought to undo this imbalance by interviewing the women who lived through World War II, from nurses to snipers.
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Cora anticipated all critiques of her sport as unwomanly, arguing that plenty of women in 19203 played basketball or bowled, but that wrestling was the best exercise of them all.
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Her first, "War's Unwomanly Face" (1985, with an expanded edition in 2002), was about Russian women who had combat roles in World War II, only to return home to be shunned.
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One is that of a woman she talked to for "War's Unwomanly Face" who said she wasn't afraid of combat but hated having to wear men's underwear as part of her uniform.
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Just as The Unwomanly Face of War undid patriarchal narratives about war, so too does Last Witnesses revise the idealized vision of a patriotic childhood that permeates post-Soviet nostalgia to this day.
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Gathered over the course of over 500 meetings with Soviet veterans, The Unwomanly Face of War was the Ukraine-born former journalist's debut, going on to sell over 2 million copies in the original 1985 Russian-language edition.
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Perhaps there is nothing to your concern, it is but the concern of a woman who is alone in a world not so very hospitable to a woman alone as if aloneness were a brazen and unwomanly choice.
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Mama measured me at home... I grew four inches... Saying goodbye, she awkwardly reaches her hot arms out and embraces me: Forgive me... From the book THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR by Svetlana Alexievich, to be published on July 25, 2017, by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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There had been many accounts, but Ms Alexievich's "The Unwomanly Face of War", published in 1985 and released this week in its first post-Soviet English edition, was unusual: an oral history told by women who enlisted in the army straight after school, learning to kill and die before they learned to live or give life.
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Among those to look out for is Kantemir Balagov's "Beanpole," a devastating, brilliantly directed and acted drama about two female friends — played by the equally extraordinary Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina — who reunite amid the ruins of Leningrad after World War II. The movie was partly inspired by the novel "The Unwomanly Face of War" by Svetlana Alexievich, who in 2015 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Editors' Choice The year of the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution has seen a number of new works published on Russian history, and our list this week includes two of them: Yuri Slezkine's "The House of Government," about an apartment complex in Moscow built for the Bolshevik elite; and the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich's "The Unwomanly Face of War," about the Russian women who served in World War II, new in translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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People stopped and commented within earshot: 'How queer.' 'How unwomanly.' 'Not quite nice, do you think? However, they were given tasks such as escorting lost children.
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Although her family recognized her remarkable intelligence, she was prevented from obtaining a substantive education or pursuing her dream of becoming an attorney, as these goals were considered "unwomanly."Lumpkin, Shirley. "American Women Prose Writers: 1820–1870" in Hudock, Amy E. and Rodier, Katharine. (eds.) Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 239. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.
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The investigation began after the body was discovered; Perham made a full confession. At Rogers's trial in 1904, Perham was the state's key witness against her. Due to his testimony and his youth, Perham avoided a death sentence and was sentenced to life imprisonment. At her trial, Rogers was portrayed as a shameless harlot and an unwomanly monster.
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Although successful in her lifetime, Behn was often vilified as "unwomanly" by 18th-century writers like Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Likewise, the 19th-century critic Julia Kavanagh said that "instead of raising man to woman's moral standards [Behn] sank to the level of man's courseness."Julia Kavanagh, English Women of Letters. London, 1863, p. 22.
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"Quoted in Mullen, p. 413. The origins of Arabella Trefoil are more obscure. In early 1877, Trollope wrote: "I have been, and still am very much afraid of Arabella Trefoil. The critics have to come, and they will tell me that she is unwomanly, unnatural, turgid,—the creation of a morbid imagination, striving after effect by laboured abominations.
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S. 288–290. These exceptional cases emphasize how in the 18th century completing a course of study and continuing to use the acquired knowledge in their lives only became harder for women. The acquired knowledge was viewed as "unwomanly" and potentially a threat to their reputation. Academic studies endangereded the women's chances of marriage, but offered no independent professions.
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Some of the earliest plays to address the question of women's suffrage were written in opposition to extending the vote. These plays satirized the notion of revised (and more equal) gender roles by portraying women as incapable of influence afforded to men or characterizing suffragists as "unwomanly" grotesques. Little research has been done into the prevalence or popularity of these anti-suffrage plays.Friedl, Bettina.
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She is caught during a riot and sent to prison where she participates in the hunger strike and is forcibly fed and beaten. She embodies the WSPU motto, "Deeds not Words". Edith Carstairs – a middle class girl who becomes involved in the suffrage movement with her mother. She draws an important distinction between suffragists – who support the cause, and suffragettes who are militant and "unwomanly".
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Sally is not overly hurt when he moves on. Monty Cartairs – Edith’s brother who mocks the movement at first believing all militants to be unfeminine. He meets Lady Hill abroad and is taken aback by her grace and beauty believing her to be someone else. He attends a WSPU meeting to see her and is shocked to discover his companion is the women he had lambasted for being unwomanly.
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They were all women. They justified the decision to exclude Maina-Miriam Munsky with the argument that the uninvolved presentation of her birth pictures was "unwomanly" ("nicht weiblich"). Separately they accused the artist of being involved with the sexist pictures produced by her artist husband, Peter Sorge, whose drawings combined photographs from pornographic magazines with scenes of violence. During the early 1970s Munsky had seemed to distance herself from the rising tide of feminist solidarity.
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She is a rude, "odious", "unwomanly" woman who is devoted to Mr. B; Pamela suspects that she might even be "an atheist!". Mrs. Jewkes constrains Pamela to be her bedfellow. Mr. B promises that he won't approach her without her leave, and then in fact stays away from Lincolnshire for a long time. Pamela meets Mr. Williams and they agree to communicate by putting letters under a sunflower in the garden. Mrs.
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Eventually nine local chapters were created, most of these in cities where officers of TERA lived. The first annual convention of TERA took place in Fort Worth from June 6 to 8 in 1894. Recruiting new members to the group was difficult, however, because of the perception that "suffrage was radical and unwomanly." Nevertheless, the efforts of TERA helped spark a state-wide interest in women's suffrage and increased coverage of suffrage in the news.
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The book is divided into 8 chapters entitled 'White slavery and the seduction of innocents', 'Unwomanly types New Women, revolting daughters and rebel girls', 'Brazen flappers, bright young things and 'Miss Modern', 'Good- time girls, baby dolls and teenage brides', 'Coming of age in the 1960s: beat girls and dolly birds', 'Taking liberties: panic over permissiveness and women's liberation', 'Body anxieties, depressives, ladettes and living dolls: what happened to girl power?' and 'Looking back'. The book is prefaced by an introduction.
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She describes Roland through traditionally feminine roles: Shelley also defends Roland's "unwomanly" actions, however, by arguing that they were "beneficial" to French society.Morrison, 140. Shelley's most overt feminist statement in the French Lives comes when she criticises Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761), writing "his ideas ... of a perfect life are singularly faulty. It includes no instruction, no endeavours to acquire knowledge and refine the soul by study; but is contracted to mere domestic avocations".Qtd.
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The Women's Amateur Federation of Canada (WAAF) was formed in 1926 to make possible new opportunities, particularly in international competition. The WAAF worked to rebut the stereotype that vigorous physical activity and intense competition was "unwomanly". One tactic was to set up a system of medical supervision for all women athletes. The WAAF forged an alliance with supportive men who dominated the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada; this allowed women to compete in the Olympics and the British Empire Games.
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Joining her sister in the American Anti- Slavery Society in 1836, Sarah originally felt that she had found the place where she truly belonged, in which her thoughts and ideas were encouraged. However, as she and Angelina began speaking not only on abolition but also on the importance of women's rights, they began to face much criticism. Their public speeches were seen as unwomanly because they spoke to mixed-gender audiences, called "promiscuous audiences" at the time. They also publicly debated men who disagreed with them.
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Alexievich has confirmed the influence of Adamovich and Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ, among others. She regards Varlam Shalamov as the best writer of the 20th century. Her most notable works in English translation include a collection of first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan (Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from a Forgotten War) and an oral history of the Chernobyl disaster (Chernobyl Prayer / Voices from Chernobyl). Alexievich describes the theme of her works this way: Her first book, War's Unwomanly Face, came out in 1985.
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On October 18, 2007, they appeared at the New York Public Library in conversation with Keith Gessen to celebrate the publication. Their 2010 translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago met with adverse criticism from Pasternak's niece, Ann Pasternak Slater, in a book review for The Guardian, but earned praise for "powerful fidelity" from Angela Livingstone in The Times Literary Supplement.Livingstone, Angela, (24/06/2011) Meaning Every Word of It. TLS. Their translation of Svetlana Alexievich's book The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II was published in 2017.
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She is presumed to have died before 1799, when John remarried one Jean Lees.Mackay, Page 139 Isabella Begg, Burns's youngest sister, had heard of Elizabeth Paton as "rude and uncultivated to a great degree... with a thorough (though unwomanly) contempt for every sort of refinement."' In a letter to Robert Chambers she describes Elizabeth as "A well developed, plain-featured peasant girl, frank and independent .." and for these reasons a favourite with Burns's mother. She goes on to say that Elizabeth Paton had a "masculine understanding" and contempt for anything that savoured of culture.
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A mycologist at the Cawthorn Institute in Nelson, she was the first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Other students who distinguishing themselves included Elsie Mary Griffin, MA (1906), subsequently a key figure in the YWCA in both New Zealand and Australia. Writing to Thomas in 1912, Griffin observed that while he might think her 'a horrid "suffragette"' indulging in 'all kinds of bold & "unwomanly" things', she found her 'scientific training of immense value' in her work.Thomas Papers, letter from E M Griffin to A P W Thomas, 14 June 1912.
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Although Gutai was ahead of the times, her artistic ability was evaluated through the recognition that she is a woman. For instance, another member of Gutai, Shozo Shimamoto said “Among these few examples of avant-garde art, Tanaka' s work has taught me about an aesthetic sensitivity that I did not have, especially an alternate possibility of rigorous beauty that can be created from womanly sweetness and frailty. They were a great influence on me.” Some reviewers criticized that a factor of her success is because her unwomanly and dynamic style.
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Born in Erxleben, near Magdeburg, Niemann lost his father (an innkeeper) at an early age and was brought up by his mother, a woman 'of almost unwomanly hardness' who lived to be ninety. He was apprenticed to an engine-maker, but ran away to Dresden to make his own life."Albert Niemann (1831–1917), German tenor", T. Max Hochstetler, 2007 He grew up with a Germanic dedication to hunting but also student-like, reading extensively in science, history and philosophy. He was not particularly sociable or tactful, was blunt in speech and often boorish in behaviour.Newman 1941 59–60.
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Roe later recalled that at the age of six she was interested in women's rights. She said that she met her first suffragette who was chalking "Votes for Women" on the pavement together with the details of a meeting when she was out shopping in London. She was impressed by Lucy Burns coming from America to fight for this cause, courting imprisonment. She was told that the suffragettes were "unwomanly" so she resisted joining the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) despite being impressed by the majestic figure of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel when she heard them speak in 1908.
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Theodore Parker, like Aristotle, opposed meanness and generosity, declaring meanness as an "unmanly and unwomanly vice". He differentiated two forms of meanness: pecuniary meanness, which is meanness in things measurable with money, and meanness of behaviour, which is meanness in things not thus measurable. George Crabb described meanness as "[w]hatever a man does in common with those below him" and that "evinces a temper that is prone to sink rather than rise in the scale of society". He considered meanness to be only relatively bad, as what may constitute meanness for one person may be generosity or prudence for another.
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On May 19, 1885, Charlotte Smith's brother, Robert Emmet Odlum, a swimming instructor, decided to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge to prove that it was possible; he died in the attempt. Charlotte visited New York on May 28 and spoke to Coroner William H. Kennedy, who denied responsibility for removing Odlum's heart and liver."The Public "I": A VERY BAD IDEA" thepublici.blogspot.com (Retrieved on July 1, 2011) In 1896 the Women's Rescue League, presided by Smith, passed a resolution denouncing "bicycle riding by young women because [it produces] immoral suggestions and imprudent associations both in language and dress which have a tendency to make women not only unwomanly, but immodest as well".
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" Later in the Renaissance, as Amazon myth evolved, artists started to depict warrior women in a new light. Queen Elizabeth was often thought of as an Amazon-like warrior during her reign and was sometimes depicted as such. Though, as explained in Divinia Viagro by Winfried Schleiner, Celeste T. Wright "has given a detailed account of the bad press Amazons had in the Renaissance (with respect to their unwomanly conduct and Scythian cruelty). She notes that she has not found any Elizabethans comparing the queen directly to an Amazon, and suggests that they might have hesitated to do so because of the association of Amazons with enfranchisement of women, which was considered contemptible.
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She could then join dinner only after the potentially messy business of eating was done. Overall, fine dining was a predominantly male affair, and it was uncommon for anyone but the most honored of guests to bring his wife or her ladies-in-waiting. The hierarchical nature of society was reinforced by etiquette where the lower ranked were expected to help the higher, the younger to assist the elder, and men to spare women the risk of sullying dress and reputation by having to handle food in an unwomanly fashion. Shared drinking cups were common even at lavish banquets for all but those who sat at the high table, as was the standard etiquette of breaking bread and carving meat for one's fellow diners.
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Terrell earned her bachelor's degree in 1884. She earned her degree in classics on the "gentleman's path", which was a full four years of study as opposed to the usual two years for women; she wrote that some of her friends tried to dissuade her from taking this degree, which included the study of Greek, on the grounds that "Greek was hard...it was unnecessary, if not positively unwomanly, for girls to study that 'old, dead language' anyhow...where...will you find a colored man who has studied Greek?".Mary Church Terrell, A Colored Woman in a White World (1940), quoted in Stephanie Y. Evans, Black Women in the Ivory Tower (UP Florida, 2008), p.77 She graduated alongside notable African-American intellectuals Anna Julia Cooper and Ida Gibbs Hunt.
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In the forward of the publication, Stevenson (signed only as 'S.Y.S.'), reflected on the ongoing struggle for women's suffrage, writing: > A Chinese philosopher, a disciple of Laotse, once said: “Man is like a child > born at midnight who when he sees the sunrise, thinks there was no > yesterday.” There are many persons in the community even today, who regard > the present movement in favor of equal suffrage as a transitory, hysterical > agitation of a demagogic nature, of which the impulse has been received in > the United States from the outbreaks of militant partisans in England. In > the minds of these persons, the movement in the past is vaguely associated > with eccentric clothing and more or less ridicule; in the present, with the > restlessness of what is regarded as an unwomanly demonstration.
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The job training of women was so completely integrated with the entire AAF training program that virtually no separate statistics are available as a basis for comparing the record of the women with male trainees. Obviously, this policy meant that the Wacs had to be as well qualified as men to enroll in and graduate from a training course. It is known only that approximately 2,000 women completed courses in AAF technical schools, including those for Link-trainer instructors, airplane mechanics, sheet-metal workers, weather forecasters, weather observers, electrical specialists of several kinds, teletype operators, control-tower specialists, cryptographers, radio mechanics, parachute riggers, bombsight- maintenance specialists, clerks, photo-laboratory technicians, and photo- interpreters. The AAF showed no reluctance in opening up its noncombat jobs to women, even jobs which required "unwomanly" mechanical skills.
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They comment, "By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!"Act IV, Scene 1, line 36–37. Robin Hood is also mentioned in As You Like It. When asked about the exiled Duke Senior, the character of Charles says that he is "already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England". Justice Silence sings a line from an unnamed Robin Hood ballad, the line is "Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John" in Act 5 scene 3 of Henry IV, part 2. In Henry IV part 1 Act 3 scene 3, Falstaff refers to Maid Marian implying she is a by-word for unwomanly or unchaste behaviour.
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This early period of women in Shakespeare, which ends in the beginning of the twentieth century, is characterised by a very conventional tone and treatment and the confirmation of female submission. The editors of a 1983 collection called The Woman's Part, referencing three books by women authors from the 19th century (an authoritative book, Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women by Anna Jameson, originally published 1832, and two fictional biographies in novel form of two of Shakespeare's heroines from 1885) conclude that these early critics are "uneasy" when Shakespeare's heroines behave "unwomanly", and that adaptations of their stories "praise girlish sweetness and modesty in a style that today appears effusive." These are, they say, "culturally induced limitations" on the part of the female critics and authors studying and adapting Shakespeare's women.
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He pointed out that a young working-class woman was likely to spend a large part of her earnings on fine hats and shawls, while "her feet are improperly protected, and she wears no flannel petticoat or woollen stockings". Florence Pomeroy, Lady Haberton, was president of the Rational Dress movement in Britain. At a National Health Society exhibition held in 1882, Viscountess Haliburton presented her invention of a "divided skirt", which was a long skirt that cleared the ground, with separate halves at the bottom made with material attached to the bottom of the skirt. She hoped that her invention would become popular by supporting women's freedom of physical movement, but the British public was not impressed by the invention, perhaps because of the negative "unwomanly" association of the style with the American Bloomers movement.
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""Mary Elizabeth Lease", Kansas State Historical Society While many considered her speeches inspirational, the fervor of her words, and the vehemence of her conviction, made others hesitant to support her cause. Farmers and labor unions loved her, while the press and the major party politicians criticized her mercilessly. Most went far beyond disagreeing with the content of Lease's arguments, rather focusing their attacks on her looks, self-confidence, and her "unwomanly" argumentative behavior. One reporter described her as "untrained, and while displaying plenty of a certain sort of power, is illogical, lacks sequence and scatters like a 10-gauge gun." The Wellington Monitor called her “a miserable character of womanhood and hideously ugly of features and foul of tongue.”1891-1900: The rise of populism, The Wichita Eagle, Beccy Tanner, January 29, 2011, UPDATED JUNE 08, 2011 A Republican editor similarly characterized her as "the petti-coated smut-mill.
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He was married to a woman named Vituriga, who was given the nickname "Samso" for her capabilities (considered "unwomanly" by the fourth century author of Historia Augusta),huic uxor virago, quae illum in hanc praecipitavit dementiam, nomine Samso, quod ei postea inditum est, nam antea Vituriga nominata est. and at the time of his usurpation, he had one son, Herennianus, aged four. Proculus was an ambitious soldier, who had commanded more than one legion as tribune; when in 280 he was asked by the people of Lugdunum (Lyon) who had started a rebellion against Emperor Probus to take the purple, he accepted, proclaiming himself joint emperor with Bonosus. "He was, nevertheless, of some benefit to the Gauls, for he crushed the Alamanni — who then were still called Germans — and not without illustrious glory, though he never fought save in brigand- fashion" (Historia Augusta) On his return from fighting the Sassanids in Syria, Probus forced Proculus to retreat north.
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The WAAF worked to rebut the stereotype that vigorous physical activity and intense competition was "unwomanly". One tactic was to set up a system of medical supervision for all women athletes. The WAAF forged an alliance with supportive men who dominated the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada. This allowed women to compete in the Olympics and the British Empire Games. Many barriers fell in the 1920s: the Edmonton Grads became the world champions of women's basketball, the first Canadian women participated in the Olympics, and women sportswriters, such as Phyllis Griffiths, were hired to cover their feats on the sports pages. The 1930s brought setbacks, as critics recommended non-competitive athletic activities as the recreation most suited to women. During the 1930s, a team of women from the small town of Preston, Ontario overcame the difficulty of obtaining adequate ice time for practice and the challenge of raising adequate funds from their small fan base. The Rivulettes dominated women's ice hockey, winning ten provincial championships and four of the six Dominion championships. With money short during the Great Depression, after 1939, the hyper-masculinity of the Second World War blocked women's opportunities.
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