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Baroque to Disney: Progressive Female Portrayals in Art

You can also read this on Medium (with pictures of the art included) here: https://medium.com/@emilystepp12/baroque-to-disney-progressive-female-portrayals-in-art-2222d28aec4e With the advent of recent Disney movies that have been mostly praised as “progressive,” it is worth examining them on a deeper level; if a character like Elsa or Anna from Disney’s smash hit Frozen is hailed as progressive, what makes them …

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Lanval and The Amazonians: How Power is Gained by Women, and What Those Methods Reveal About Them

You can also read this on Medium (featuring awesome Renaissance art!) here: https://medium.com/@emilystepp12/lanval-and-the-amazonians-how-power-is-gained-by-women-and-what-those-methods-reveal-about-them-759f548eb345 Within Marie de France’s Lanval and Christine de Pizan’s The Amazons, one sees two different ways in which a woman may perform a power reversal within her society or culture. It is interesting that while both of these involve a woman possessing …

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