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CLIO TALKS BACK: Can mothers be artistic geniuses?
While reading Paula Birnbaum’s fascinating new book on Women Artists in Interwar France, Clio came across a debate that took place in the mid-1930s between those who claimed that motherhood might be...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: Remembering Fanny Blankers-Koen: Mom and her four gold medals
Fanny Blanker-Koen runningAs the 2012 Olympic Games in London come to a close, a historic heroine has re-emerged – one unfamiliar to most of us today. Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918-2004), the extraordinary...
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In Celebration of Richey Rice Gore
[Editor's Note: The following post was written by IMOW's Founding Board Member Elizabeth Colton, in remembrance and celebration of her friend and former IMOW board member Richey Rice Gore.]Richey Rice...
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I went down to the river to pray
[Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by Ayesha Mattu, a writer, international development consultant and the editor of Love InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Her...
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How the Movement for Improved Maternal Health is Growing
Image credit: Chantal AndersonWe did it!Just a few days ago, a woman in the United States named Tara Lopez signed the maternal health pledge that has been at the heart of IMOW's exhibition, MAMA:...
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Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawaii
Image property of: Pet_rEditor's note: Due to the length of this interview, this post is a two-part series. Read Part Two!Hawaiian filmmaker, Anne Keala Kelly's Noho Hewa (Noho means "to occupy" and...
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Celebrating National Grandparents Day
[Editor's Note: The following guest post was written by photographer Paola Gianturco.]Storytelling Grandmothers throughout Argentina read to children in schools, libraries, bookstores and parks. The...
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On Popular Representations of Radical Women and Girls
There's been so much on my mind lately as I am constantly torn between excitement and discomfort. It is a constant unease -- a fantasy-based (but very real) suspicion that cultural identity is heavily...
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A New Kind of Comic Book, a New Kind of Superhero
Image from Marjane Satrapi's PersepolisThe other day I took a friend's 14 year-old daughter, who I was looking after for the day, to a book shop. She was an exceptionally smart kid from DC, adopted...
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Anne Keala Kelly: U.S. Occupation of Hawaii Killing Indigenous Roots
Image Credit: jwinfredIf you've just tuned in and missed Part One of this compelling interview with Hawaiian filmmaker, Anne Keala Kelly on her documentary film 'Noho Hewa', then go check it out.In the...
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Marriage: Which Voice Should a Woman Listen to?
As a woman, one is always told that they should be able to multitask. I must say that I know many women who have been able to carry out this order with no hustle. Sometimes though, there are many...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: Thoughts About the Empress Maria Theresa As Mother
Clio recently revisited Vienna, where she was reminded of the remarkable career of the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa (1717–1780). She was the sole female Habsburg ruler, thanks to the Pragmatic...
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Reclaiming the Veil in Tunisia
Editor's Note: Natalia Rankine-Galloway's post is a special feature to Her Blueprint in response to the recent outbreak of violence in Tunisia. Natalia is a mother of one, military spouse, and managing...
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Interview with Lebanese Creative Joumana Medlej
Joumana Medlej is an amazing Lebanese creative whose work includes the comic series Malaak: Angel of Peace, educational children's books about Lebanon, art tutorials, and calligraphy. Recently, I had...
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Ghana Returnee Leaves Tech Career to Become Wedding Entrepreneur
Ghana: The Bride and The Dress from VickieRemoe on Vimeo.Recently, close to one hundred retailers gathered at Accra's International Conference Center for a bridal fair. It was all cakes, decorations,...
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Why Women Still Want Children
Image credit: familiesfromwithin.wordpress.comMost scholars claim that an increase in education lowers the number of desired children and the actual number of children that a woman will have in her...
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FGM: The Fight for Female Reproductive Rights for Girls in Developing and...
Isn't it sad that in this day and age so many archaic traditions are still being undertaken by tribes, nations, and peoples of all races and creeds, particularly at the cost of women's well-being?...
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Exhibition Participant to Intern: One Woman's Experience at IMOW
[Editor's Note: The following is a guest blog post from Ally Zeifman, a participant in our Young Women Speaking the Economy exhibition from 2011, who is now undertaking a six-month internship at IMOW....
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Jenny Saville : A Painter of Modern Life
“… She is a divinity, a star, which presides at all the conceptions of the brain of man; a glittering conglomeration of all the graces of Nature, condensed into a single being; the object of the...
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Clio Talks Back: Happy Mothers, Grieving Mothers
by Mary CassattAmong women artists who have depicted scenes about motherhood, two particularly stand out in Clio’s mind: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926 ), an American from Philadelphia who resided for much of...
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