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Sociologist Christy Craig said that women have turned to book clubs to construct social networks and important partnerships, especially in times of upheaval. [1] A 2018 BookBrowse survey found that 88% of private book clubs are all-women groups, but almost half of public groups—such as those hosted by libraries—include men. [2]
[it remains true that] women or women's names represent between 5.5 and 8 percent of the total [names in the Bible], a stunning reflection of the androcentric character of the Bible." [ 29 ] : 34 A study of women whose spoken words are recorded found 93, of which 49 women are named.
Joanna – One of the women who went to prepare Jesus' body for burial. Luke [90] Jochebed – Mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Exodus, Numbers [91] [92] Judith – Hittite wife of Esau. Genesis [93] Judith, the heroine of the deuterocanonical Book of Judith [94] Julia – Minor character in the new testament Romans [95]
Sophie, a character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile: or, On Education (book V) who is raised to be the perfect wife. [13] Lucretia as depicted by Benjamin Britten in The Rape of Lucretia. [14] Sylvia, in William Shakespeare's poem Who is Sylvia? [15] Many books have been written on the subject of the Ideal Woman. [16] [17] [18]
Ms. O [Oprah Winfrey]—you are so special to me. The impact you’ve made on my life will permeate to my children’s children, and their children’s children, and I thank you for that.
Kate Bernheimer's collection How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales is an overt ode to the genre, but, at the same time, a revitalizing force that graces the messiness of girlhood with an ethereal air. "I do think it's something that attracts women who want to turn over and examine the stereotypes and the role of women," Sparks said.
Later, the initial state portrayals of idealized femininity as strong and hard-working began to also include more traditional notions such as gentleness, caring and nurturing behaviour, softness, modesty and moral virtue, [89] [96]: 53 requiring good communist women to become "superheroes who excelled in all spheres", including working at jobs ...
The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.