... Wendy Wasserstein, the author of The Heidi Chronicles, draws attention to another feminist issue: the "[] lack of respect for women's voices" [Goo03]. 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- ... , certain dilemmas didn't go away – namely, how to balance the part of themselves that was active in the world, outside the home, with the expectations pl...

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... spaces have been a prominent theme in popular culture, the 2014 Tamil movie Madras being a notable effort in the recent times. In one section of this paper, we look at how the four female politicians under consideration go about constructing their identities in the public sphere through various forms of media. Mediation could be understood as the process by which a given ... billboards and advertisements, provide a platform for the production and reproduction of gendered expectations of leadership and the reiteration of gendered sources of leadership authority. Mayawati and Uma Bharti Ka...

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