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Depuis que Virginie a obtenu le septième accessit.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Depuis que Virginie a obtenu le septieme accessit.. 1844. Depuis que Virginie a obtenu la septieme accessit de poesie a l'Academie francaise il faut que ce soit moi...moi capitaine de la garde

Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame Arthur et d'intituler mon enfant Oscar

Queen Christina in Palazzo Corsini, 1908. Creator: Kristian Zahrtmann
Queen Christina in Palazzo Corsini, 1908. Christina, Queen of Sweden abdicated and moved to Rome. Here she is smoking a pipe and lifting up her dress to warm her behind by the fire

Wooden box industry - female workers posing with Mrs. Graham, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden box industry - female workers posing with Mrs. Graham, c1910

Girl painting strips with glue to assemble cigar boxes, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Girl painting strips with glue to assemble cigar boxes, c1910

Wooden Box Industry: young woman working at machine, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden Box Industry: young woman working at machine, c1910

Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory, c1910

A child of the Orient, n.d.. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
A child of the Orient, n.d.. Head and shoulders, facing right

A child of the Orient, n.d.. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
A child of the Orient, n.d.. Head and shoulders portrait

Mills Thompson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, with cherry... between c1890 and c1910
Mills Thompson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, with cherry blossoms in hair, between c1890 and c1910. [Artist, painter and designer Mills Thompson enjoyed cross-dressing]

African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1902
African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1902. [Young women learning upholstery and soft furnishing]

Students making and upholstering barrel furniture, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1902
Students making and upholstering barrel furniture, 1902. [Young black women learning upholstery and soft furnishing]

Georgetown Convent, Washington, D.C. - students in study hall, not after 1892. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Georgetown Convent, Washington, D.C. - students in study hall, not after 1892. [Roman Catholic school for girls, founded in 1799]

Haschebaad-Navaho, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Haschebaad-Navaho, c1905. Barechested Navajo man wearing mask of Haschebaad, a benevolent female deity

Sex change model April Ashley pictured during the wedding of Arabella Churchill and James Barton at the Essex Unitarian Church in Kensington, August 1972

Cover design, Do it yourself, May 1966 - do it herself, a practical guide for the woman about the house Date: 1966

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, writer, poet and traveller
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)was a prolific poet and novelist, penning more than 70 books. As well as being married to a man for fifteen years

Club Life - What we are coming to
Inside a Gentlemen's clubs where women were strictly not allowed. An engraving showing what would happen if women were invited too. Date: circa 1860s

Woman and Suspended Man, 1939 (oil on canvas)
5897184 Woman and Suspended Man, 1939 (oil on canvas) by Haile, Samuel (1909-48); 79x53 cm; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: Surreal figure composition of a large)

Still life, 1918 (oil on canvas)
5043069 Still life, 1918 (oil on canvas) by Mooney, Edward Hartley (c.1878-1938); 51x61 cm; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: Domestic still life composition arranged on a white table top)

The Language of Flowers, 1885 (oil on canvas)
5043054 The Language of Flowers, 1885 (oil on canvas) by Leslie, George Dunlop (1835-1921); 112.3x145 cm; Manchester Art Gallery

Portrait of a Perfect Wife (oil on canvas)
3078703 Portrait of a Perfect Wife (oil on canvas) by English School; (add.info.: Portrait of Perfect Wife by an anonymous Tudor artist. Dated 17th Century); Universal History Archive/UIG

Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service... Milwaukee, Wis. 1943
Agnes Cliemka, age 23, married and husband may be going into the service [US armed services] any day, Heil and Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Agnes used to work in a dep[artmen]t store

A rivet is her fighting weapon... Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Dept. of the Naval Air Base, talking with one of the men, Corpus Christi, Texas

Chicago and North Western R.R. Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house... Clinton, Iowa, 1943
Chicago and North Western R.R. Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs

Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the... Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

A lathe operator machining parts for... Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair dept

Women are contributing their skills to the nations needs by keeping... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Women are contributing their skills to the nations needs by keeping our countrys planes in top-notch fighting condition, Corpus Christi, Texas. Wife of a disabled World War I veteran, Mrs

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mech... Consolidated Aircraft Corp, Fort Worth, Texas
Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Bowen, a riveter, and Olsen, her supervisor, in the Assembly... Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
Bowen, a riveter, and Olsen, her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress... Consolidated Aircraft Corp
Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base... 1942
Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas

Answering the nations need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Answering the nations need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing oxygen flask racks above the flight... Consolidated Aircraft... Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Installing oxygen flask racks above the flight deck of a C-87 transport at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk... Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
Working inside fuselage of a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs... Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Fort Worth, Texas

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer... Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1943
War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts

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"Exploring the Tapestry of Gender: From X and Y Chromosomes to Transgender Rights Protests" Gender, a complex concept woven into the fabric of society, is not limited to mere labels. It delves deep into our biological makeup, with X and Y chromosomes determining our physical characteristics. However, gender goes beyond biology; it encompasses societal expectations and cultural norms. Throughout history, we have witnessed intriguing manifestations roles. Picture this: female jockeys fearlessly riding gentlemen like horses, challenging traditional notions of masculinity. In 1927's "Eve Adamised, " an audacious artwork by unknown artist H M Bateman, we see a satirical take on gender reversal. Advertisements often reflect prevailing attitudes towards gender. Take the Western Electric vacuum cleaner ad featuring a patient woman meticulously cleaning her surroundings – a reflection of stereotypical domestic roles assigned to women in that era. But times change. Today's world embraces diversity and inclusivity more than ever before. A powerful image from Canberra captures transgender rights activists protesting for equality – their voices demanding recognition echoing through the streets. Breaking stereotypes can also be seen in unexpected places - who would have thought knitting could challenge gender norms? The formation of the first men's knitting club challenges preconceived notions about hobbies being exclusively feminine or masculine. History offers glimpses into how gender has shaped different aspects of society. An evocative photograph from the 1940s takes us inside an arms factory during World War II - men dominating traditionally male-dominated spaces while women contributed significantly on various fronts as well. Artistic expressions throughout time shed light on diverse representations of femininity and masculinity. Carlo Maderno's statue at Basilica St. Caecilia depicts Cybele (Magna Mater), a Phrygian/Roman goddess symbolizing motherhood and fertility - highlighting reverence for feminine power since ancient times. In modern times, influential figures like Lesley Abdela have championed gender equality, advocating for women's rights and challenging societal norms.