Why was the legendary Soviet filmmaker rebuffed in his vision of putting history's most consequential slave revolt on screen?

When did heaviness and curviness in women become connected with the idea of "savagery"? It has a lot to do with 19th-century imperialist world views.

Victor Hugo created visual art that was intuitive, experimental, and inspired by Spiritualism. In other words, nothing like his novel Les Misérables.

Under coverture, married English women had no rights to their property, even though unmarried women did, making for a unique system in Europe.

Although studying the language known as “Anglo-Saxon” helped women advance in the academy, the subject is fraught with racist associations.