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Multi-Tasking Women From the 1920s to the 2020s The use of gender stereotypes in the media only serves to reinforce this inequality. By Katie McElvanney, Curator Slavonic and East European Collections One of our key roles as curators is to explore the contemporary resonance of the Library’s collections in national and international contexts. I was acutely reminded of this two weeks ago when showing an item at an event connected to the exhibition, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s R...

29 January 2021 The Portuguese genre called fado began among sailors in the waterfront bars of Lisbon in the 1830s, but it was born into the world when Amália Rodrigues shook the world with her voice a hundred years later. For six decades, the black-clad, dark-haired singer stood astride the genre, giving shape to the mournful heart of Portugal, a county that looked out to an ocean that took its seafaring men. At a 1999 memorial concert for Rodrigues, a young singer named Mariza took the stage...

Institution Education Bachelor in Romance Languages and Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1959), PhD from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1968) Written works Shall we start by talking about your time as a student? There are three years at the start of my career that I consider decisive for the development of my intellectual and teaching approach: 1960, 1961, and 1962. In 1948, when I was 12, my family moved to Belo Horizonte, where I obtained my degree in romance language...

She’s also broke ground by commentating on huge men’s matches Natalia recently undertook an uber-challenging test “The ball is sent into the box,” said the commentator in her inimitably impassioned tones. “Crivelari gets it at the back post. She hits it first-time, side-footed… goooooooool for Corinthians!” Natalia Lara was doing what she does habitually last November… with an inhabitual twist: she wasn’t even watching the action she was describing to thousands. “It was craz...