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Microsoft Encarta made it to the web in that year, and the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica had been on the web since 1994. Yet their subscription models, limited scope, and Web 1.0 functionality were not what people raised on Ford Prefect and Hari Seldon — touchstone characters of geek culture [1] — had in mind. A real, universal online ...
Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also available online via annual subscription, although later articles could also be viewed for free online with advertisements. [1]
Reviewing the contents of the Emancipation Pictorial, Liu Renfeng of the Hunan Women's University divides its imagery into three categories: depictions of women's suffering in earlier eras, the means of women's liberation, and the future of women's emancipation. As examples of the first, she notes illustrations of a woman smothered by a weight ...
This image, addressing the role of religious and art historical iconography in the subordination of women, became "one of the most iconic images of the feminist art movement." [17] [18] Photography became a common medium used by feminist artists. It was used, in many ways, to show the "real" woman.
A giant of early 20th century art, whose glamorous figurative paintings of women played an important role in defining Art Deco, is now the subject of her first-ever U.S. retrospective, currently ...
The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Slightly larger than a college dictionary, it is similar in appearance and scope to the American Heritage Dictionary , which Soukhanov previously edited.
When women were editors or owners of periodicals, they were in a unique position to engage directly with the public. [33] The women's suffrage journal, the Woman Voter, had a dedicated art editor, Ida Proper. [34] During the last twenty years of the movement, suffragists emphasized the idea of women's suffrage being a benefit to society. [35]
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.