Arts & Culture
Review: “The Change”
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Liz Williams reviews Channel 4’s new series “The Change,” a story of a menopausal woman’s journey into the Forest of Dean with notable Pagan themes.
Arts & Culture
A new “Beowulf” confronts misogyny in the text – and its translators
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Eric O. Scott reviews the new translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley, which features modern slang and a focus on the poem’s relationship to the women within it.
Featured
Baltimore Museum of Art seeks to redress inequality through focus on women artists
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The Baltimore Museum of Art is attempting to rectify the lack of representation of women artists in its collection by devoting its exhibitions in 2020 – and all of its acquisitions budget – to work by women.
Paganism
Column: Pagan Women Respond to Unbalanced Dress Codes
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As spring gets into full steam and the weather gets warmer, clothing often tends to become more revealing. Men begin to wear more shorts and t-shirts while women move their wardrobe toward sundresses, skirts, and tops that reveal both midriff and shoulders. It makes perfect sense given the warming weather, but different expectations for how men and women dress can often be disproportionate and inappropriately sexualized. Hollywood has weighed in on the problem.The 1992 film A League of Their Own touches on the very real and quite dangerous practice of requiring female professional baseball players to wear skirts. 2016’s Hidden Figuresstepped into questioning the requirement of skirts and high heels.