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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
The Book of the City of Ladies, or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, is a book written by Christine de Pizan believed to have been finished by 1405. Perhaps Pizan's most famous literary work, it is her second work of lengthy prose.
The painting is alternately known as The Christian Virgins Exposed to the Rabble, [1] Jovenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho (Christian Maidens Exposed to the Populace), [3] Christian Virgins Presented to the Populace, [4] [5] The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace, [6] and Christian Virgins Exposed to the Mob.
Las Damas Romanas (literally, "The Roman Dames"), also known as The Roman Maidens, The Roman Women, [1] or The Roman Ladies, [2] [3] is an oil on canvas painted in the style of Neo-Classicism by Juan Luna, one of the most famous Filipino painters of the Spanish period in the Philippines. [4]
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [a] OSH (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), [1] was a New Spain (considered Mexican by many authors) [2] writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. [1]
The association was created after the honorary admission of María Isidra Quintana de Guzmán y de la Cerda and María Josefa Alfonso Pimentel y Tellez-Girón to the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense. After a public debate over the admittance of women, the Junta de Damas was created to be a separate section of the society to provide a public ...
Damas Gratis (Spanish for "Ladies for Free") is an Argentine cumbia villera band started by keyboardist and singer, Pablo Lescano in 2000. They are one of the most influential bands in Argentina and well-known in all of Latin America .