However, it is not only religion that has placed these insurmountable hurdles on the path of women; but also culture, and periods in history. ... The main character of the play, Dr Heidi Holland, a savant art history professor at Columbia University, discusses the paintings of great female artists like Sofonisba Anguissola, Clara Peeters, Lily Martin Spencer with her class. She laments the exclusion of the names of these pre-twentieth-century female artists in art history text books, "Although Sofonisba was praised in the seventeenth century as being a portraitist equal to Titian, and at ...

• Word Count: 3095
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does n...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate