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Battle-axe (woman)
A battle-axe is a derogatory traditional stereotype describing a woman characterized as aggressive, overbearing and forceful. The term originated as a gender-independent descriptor in the early 20th century, but became primarily applied to women around the middle of the century. The prime example was the militant temperance activist Carrie Nation, who actually wielded a hatchet and made it her symbol, living in ''Hatchet Hall'' and publishing a magazine called ''The Hatchet''. She became involved in the suffragette campaign for votes for women and this campaign further established the archetype. The battleaxe is one of several stereotypes found in nursing – a tyrannical, fierce matron exemplified by Nurse Ratched or Hattie Jacques in popular medical dramas and comedies. Judith Furse played a "battle-axe woman" in the film '' Carry On Cabby''. Another example of the battleaxe in popular culture is in soap operas, for which the "quintessential archetype" was Violet Carson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carry A
Carry or carrying may refer to: People *Carry (name) Finance * Carried interest (or carry), the share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager * Carry (investment), a financial term: the carry of an asset is the gain or cost of holding the asset Firearms * Concealed carry, carrying a firearm or other weapon in public in a concealed manner * Open carry, openly carrying a firearm in public Sports & gaming * Carry, a fault in the game of pickleball * Carry (American football), a statistical term equivalent to a single rushing play * Carry (eSports), a type of role in multiplayer online battle arena games * Carrying (basketball), a rule breach in basketball Other * Carry (arithmetic), when a digit is larger than a limit and the extra is moved to the left ** Carry flag, the equivalent in calculation in a computer * "Carry" (song), a song by Tori Amos * Suzuki Carry, a light commercial vehicle See also * * Carey (other) * Carrie (other) * Cary (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Carson
Violet Helen Carson (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was a British actress of radio, stage and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC Radio, and during the last two decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera ''Coronation Street''. She was one of the original characters from the series debut in 1960 and would feature in the role for twenty years. Early life and career Carson was born on German Street in Ancoats, Lancashire. Her Scottish father, William Brown Carson, ran a flour mill and her mother, Mary Clarke Carson (' Tordoff), was an amateur singer. As a child, she took piano lessons while attending a Church of England school and performed with her younger sister Nellie as a singing act called the Carson Sisters. In 1913, she became a cinema pianist providing the musical accompanim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Stock Characters
An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes (unlike isogamy where they are the same size). The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Characteristics of organisms with a female sex vary between different species, having different female reproductive systems, with some species showing characteristics secondary to the reproductive system, as with mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Rappaport
Helen F. Rappaport (née Ware; born June 1947), is a British historian and former actress. She specialises in the Victorian era and revolutionary Russia. Early life and education Rappaport was born Helen Ware in Bromley, grew up near the River Medway in North Kent and attended Chatham Grammar School for Girls. Her older brother Mike Ware, born 1939, is a photographer, chemist, and writer. She has twin younger brothers, Peter (also a photographer) and Christopher, born in 1953. She studied Russian at Leeds University where she was involved in the university Theatre Group and launched her acting career. Career Acting After acting with the Leeds University Theatre Group she appeared in several television series including ''Crown Court'', '' Love Hurts'' and ''The Bill''. She later claimed to have spent "20 years in the doldrums as an out of work, broke and miserable actress". Writing In the early nineties she became a copy editor for academic publishers Blackwell and OUP and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virago
A virago is a woman who demonstrates abundant masculine virtues. The word comes from the Latin word ''virāgō'' (genitive virāginis) meaning "vigorous maiden" from ''vir'' meaning "man" or "man-like" (cf. virile and virtue) to which the suffix ''-āgō '' is added, a suffix that creates a new noun of the third declension with feminine grammatical gender. Historically, this was often positive and reflected heroism and exemplary qualities of masculinity. However, it could also be pejorative, indicating a woman who is masculine to the exclusion of traditional feminine virtues. Modern use of the word ''virago'' generally takes the disparaging sense. Thus ''virago'' joined pejoratives such as ''termagant'', ''mannish'', ''amazonian'' and ''shrew'' to describe women who acted aggressively or like men. The word ''virago'' has almost always had an association with cultural gender transgression. There are recorded instances of viragos (such as Joan of Arc) fighting battles, wearing me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Termagant
Text from a manuscript of the ''Chanson de Guillaume'': ''Tresque il vendreit de aurer Tervagant'' In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name of a god that some European Christians believed Muslims worshipped. It originates in the eleventh-century ''Song of Roland''. The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, or vixen. In the past, the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman. Etymology European literature from the Middle Ages often refers to Muslims as pagans and depicts them worshipping Muhammad along with various idols and sometimes other deities, such as Apollyon, Lucifer and Termagant. In some writings, such as the ''Song of Roland'', these were combined to create an "unholy Trinity" of sorts composed of Apollyon, Muhammad and Termagant. The original form of the name is ''Tervagan''. There are many hypotheses explaining the origin of the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labrys
''Labrys'' () is, according to Plutarch (''Quaestiones Graecae'' 2.302a), the Lydian language, Lydian word for the Axe#Components, double-bitted axe. In Greek it was called (''pélekys''). The plural of ''labrys'' is ''labryes'' (). Etymology Plutarch relates that the word was a Lydian language, Lydian word for 'axe': . ("For Lydians name the double-edged axe 'Labrys). Many scholars including Arthur Evans assert that the word ''labyrinth'' is derived from ''labrys'' and thus implies 'house of the double axe'. A priestly corporation in Delphi was named ''Labyades''; the original name was probably ''Labryades'', servants of the double axe. In the Roman era at Patrai and Messene, a goddess Laphria (festival), Laphria was worshipped, commonly identified with Artemis. Her name was said to be derived from the region around Delphi. In History of Crete, Crete the "double axe" is not a weapon, and it always accompanies female goddesses, not male gods, referring to the male bull god ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen (slang)
Karen is a pejorative slang term typically used to refer to a middle class woman who is perceived as entitled or excessively demanding. The term is often portrayed in memes depicting middle-class white women who "use their white and class privilege to demand their own way". Depictions include demanding to "speak to the manager", being racist, or wearing a particular bob cut hairstyle. It was popularized in the aftermath of the Central Park birdwatching incident in 2020, when a woman called the police during a disagreement over the requirement for her dog to be leashed in an area of the park. The term has been criticized by some as racist, sexist, ageist, classist, and controlling women's behavior. The term has occasionally been applied to male behavior. During 2020, the term increasingly appeared in media and social media, including during the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests. ''The Guardian'' called 2020 "the year of Karen". Origin In African-American c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Hachette
Jeanne Laisné, also known as Jeanne Fourquet in the 16th century and better known as Jeanne Hachette, is an emblematic figure in the history of the French city of Beauvais's resistance to the siege laid by Charles the Bold, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. She is said to have helped to repel a Burgundian attack on the town of Beauvais with a hatchet and, in popular history, has been elevated to the rank of French heroine. She was born in Beauvais, around 1454, and died on an unknown date. The details of her life, and even the fact of her existence, have been the subject of debate among historians, although several contemporaneous documents refer to her existence. Life story and the siege of Beauvais Jeanne Laisné is said to have been born in what is now rue Jeanne-Hachette in the city of Beauvais. She was the daughter of Mathieu Laisnéa, a bourgeois and, according to some historians, a former senior officer of the palace guards of Louis XI who was killed at the Battle of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishwife
A fishwife, fish-fag or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch, but other sources of fish have been used. Some wives and daughters of fishermen were notoriously loud and foul-mouthed, as noted in the expression, ''To swear like a fishwife'' as they sold fish in the marketplace. Among the reasons for their outspokenness were that their wares were highly perishable and lost value if not sold quickly, and the similarity of their product to that of others selling the same thing, with volume of voice or colourful language drawing customer attention. Also, managing alone while their menfolk were away fishing for extended periods made them strong and self-sufficient. In this context, the word ''wife#Etymology, wife'' means ''woman'' rather than ''married woman'', from the Old English language, Old English ''wif'' (woman). Billingsgate London's Billingsgate Fish Market, traditional fish market was frequented by such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced street in the fictional town of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester. The location was itself based on Salford, the hometown of the show's first screenwriter and creator, Tony Warren. Originally broadcast twice weekly, ''Coronation Street'' increased its runtime in later years, currently airing three 60-minute episodes per week. Warren developed the concept for the series, which was initially rejected by Granada's founder Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, Sidney Bernstein. Producer Harry Elton convinced Bernstein to commission 13 pilot episodes. The show has since become a significant part of British culture and underpinned the success of its producing Granada franchise. Currently produced by ITV Studios, the successor to Granada, the seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ena Sharples
Ena Sharples (also Schofield) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Violet Carson. She appeared in the first episode, broadcast on 9 December 1960, and stayed with the show until 2 April 1980. Development Ena Sharples was the matronly widowed caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, a retired pensioner, she spent much of her time criticising the activities and loose morals of the street's other residents. One of the main characters during the 1960s, she was featured less regularly in the 1970s due to the declining health of actress Violet Carson and was written out in 1980. Almost always wearing a double-breasted overcoat and hairnet, she spent much of her free time in the serial's early years with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst ( Lynne Carol) and Minnie Caldwell ( Margot Bryant), in the snug bar of local pub The Rovers Return Inn, drinking milk stout. Ena particularly criticised Elsie Tanner ( Pat Phoenix), who sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
