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Mapping a Better Future for Girls Across the Globe
One of my vivacious nieces turns seven this week. Topping her list of wishes for a birthday gift are a globe or map of the world and a kids' encyclopedia, followed closely, of course, by a Lincoln Logs...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: Fadela Amara Speaks Out and Organizes Against Violence in...
Fadela AmaraThe French human rights activist Fadela Amara (b. 1963) is best known as the founder of Ni Putes Ni Soumises [Neither Whore Nor Submissive], a French organization of progressive young...
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Tulika Ladsariya: Chronicling the Art of Labor
Bricks, 2012, Enamel and Ink on brickA former banker who found herself inexorably migrating into the world of art, Chicago-based Indian artist, Tulika Ladsariya focuses her artistic lens on exploring...
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Saloua Raouda Choucair at Tate Modern
For the first time in its history, Tate Modern has dedicated the world’s first major museum exhibition to Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair.Choucair (born in Lebanon, 1916) is a pioneer of...
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Lamia Gargash: Presence in Absence
The Staircase, Lamia Gargash (2005-6)I first discovered award-winning Emirati photographer and visual artist, Lamia Gargash's work in a British Council exhibition, My Father's House a few years ago; a...
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Encountering a Mover-Shaker: Gertrude Bell
“Khan al Musalla” (March 1911), by Gertrude Bell. Image Source: Gertrude Bell Archive, NewcastleUniversity Library.As I continue to learn more about the field of archaeology, I turn to reading books...
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AxME: Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern
Walking into the first room of the exhibition AxME at Tate Modern in London, one cannot remain indifferent when viewing a photo that immortalizes the figure of Freud sketching a model. With a closer...
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Moms L'Inked by Autism: Expressing Maternal Solidarity Through Body Art
...if the impulse to create art is one of the defining signs of humanity, the body may well have been the first canvas. People have always marked their bodies with signs of individuality, social...
View ArticleCLIO TALKS BACK: THINKING ABOUT WOMEN’S LIFE STORY-TELLING IN IRAN
Writing in the Journal of Women’s History, Professor Farzaneh Milani observes that autobiographical writing is a very new phenomenon in the very old land of Iran. Only since the mid-twentieth century...
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On Principles of Responsible Investment
Q & A with Emilie Goodall, Head of Environmental and Social Themed Investment, UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)Growth in PRI signatories and related AUM. Source: PRI Thanks...
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Regina José Galindo: El mundo mordio mi corazon y me contagio su rabia
Regina José Galindo’s performances reflect the violence that is deteriorating Guatemala. Born in Guatemala City, her work always makes references to perceived “lower” levels of society, and to women in...
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Bringing Women's Work and Women's History to Life: A Conversation with...
When they had closed the door behind them, the aunt handed Ida the baby for the first time. He weighed barely more than a bowl of bread dough.Ida tried not to show her surprise. She laid the...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: The Heart Divided: Writing the Human Drama of Partition in...
Today’s blog is a guest blog, written by Clio’s colleague, Pippa Virdee, a specialist in South Asian history and the history of women, who teaches in the United Kingdom. Clio met her at the recent...
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Ana Mendieta: Traces of Life
Arbol de la Vita (1970).Whoever is familiar with Hermann Hesse’s book Pictor's Metamorphoses will see immediately the relationship between the human being and the earth, and will quickly relate it to...
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For a Syrian Refugee in Palestine: A Lifelong Plight of Unanswered Rights
[Editor's Note: This blog post by IMOW contributor Simba Russeau was originally published on Debating Human Rights for Blog Action Day 2013.]On December 10, 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, the...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: Making History: Haifaa Al Mansour’s feature length film...
CLIO can’t say enough good things about the first feature-length film to come out of Saudi Arabia, which she saw last week. This is the story of a spunky girl on the threshhold of adolescence, who...
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Meriem Bouderbala: Female Arab Art
When we speak about the Arab Countries, and specifically of Arab Women, we immediately associate them with the idea of harem, veil, and dance. Arab women are seen as oppressed and repressed by a...
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Suki Chan: Viewing Through Prisms of Senses
Still Point, Film Installation (2012)Abstracting from a smorgasbord of experiences, influences, and issues, installation artist and curator Suki Chan traverses multiple terrains and teases out the...
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Mira Schendel: Portrait of a Brazilian Artist
Myrra Dagmar Dub, known as Mira Schendel (1919-1988), was a Brazilian artist. Born in Zurich, to parents of Jewish heritage, Schendel was raised in Italy as a catholic and studied philosophy at the...
View ArticleOn Motherhood and Borrowed Bodies
[Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by Dr. Valerie Mason-John, whose story "The Gift" is included in IMOW's MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe exhibition.] Motherhood today in the west is so...
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