5 h. ago Survival and stoicism: stories of women born before the second world war

Christian Doyle’s series Quietly Getting On focuses on women in their late 80s and 90s, their memories of a wartime childhood and how they live nowAs a way of maintaining contact with my elderly neighbours during the Covid restrictions of 2020, we set up a project where each person held up a card showing the age they felt inside. From their life stories, a new idea formed in my mind.This is a generation of women who had experienced first-hand the impact of war on the domestic front, who had been evacuated to strangers across the country, not seeing their parents for months on end. Maybe these experiences created a different mindset; a resilience and stoicism, where the self is less important than being part of a community. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago British woman now world’s oldest person shares the secret to long life

Ethel was born before the First World War

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7 d. ago Heather Graham eyes own production company to combat Hollywood sexism

EXCLUSIVE The actress has expanded into writing and directing in recent years and would ‘love’ to take it to the next level ala Reese Witherspoon and Margot Robbie, to address ‘huge market for women’s voices and stories’

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9 d. ago Musician tells the stories of 10 women imprisoned for killing their abusers

Vivir Quintana is using a typically male genre of music to sing for incarcerated women

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3 w. ago ‘There was always a male gaze behind it’: Madrid exhibition rewrites cliches of female Latin artists

Show looks beyond notions of exoticism, hyper-sexuality and diva behaviour to how stars gained control of their own imageFrom the cha-cha-chá dancers of the 1950s to the fruit-heavy turbans of Carmen Miranda, and from the golden age of Mexican cinema to the emergence of salsa stars such as Celia Cruz, the world has not lacked powerful symbols of Latin womanhood.But a new exhibition in Madrid is inviting visitors to look past the cliches and stereotypes of the past century and to reflect on the myriad ways in which Latin women, their bodies and their stories have made their way into popular culture. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle, and Madonna's love for Cartier ahead of new London display

Priceless gems and the stories behind the beautiful - and often famous - women who wore them are part of a Cartier display coming to the V&A museum this month and it promises to be sparkling

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