HobbitFeet wrote:I bought an excellent book the other day for hobbit jnr (and for me too)
it's a new one called 'Women, Our History' and it basically covers history with women as the focus, it's full of all sorts of stuff that turns the original patriarchal writings of history on their head - stuff like Neolithic women's arms were 16% stronger than a modern day rower's, they didn't just sit in caves they were out there hunting and partaking in all the stuff that is attributed to men, also cave paintings have been analysed and many were created by women, so women were some of the very earliest artists although art history often entirely obliterates any contribution women have made
which brings me to the woman I most admire, it has to be Frida Kahlo, just because
Hmm. In many cultures women not men decorate the home. I'm not sure the cave paintings carry much significance. A greater travesty still impacting on modern times was the suppression of God's missus, Asherah.
Frida is a good choice though.
I'll add Maya Angelou to the women in the arts category.