Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
Online Exhibition
Enlightenment pedagogical theories about female education and their spread in the Black Sea Region In the 19th century a public debate began in Bulgarian society on the question of whether a woman’s education is necessary. On the one hand, the proponents of the traditional view
The stereotyping of the Orient and its inhabitants by Western Europeans is well visible in their eyes to Bulgarian women. A good example is the article by Hester Donaldson Jenkins, an American teacher and missionary, in the National Geographic Magazine, where she described the Bulgarian
Religion and visualization process Georgeta Nazarska The female images were an important part of the cult of the saints in the Eastern Orthodox religious painting, the Virgin Mary and many women saints as St. Marina, St. Paraskeva (Petka), St. Nedelya etc. Often they were saints-patrons
Traveling through the Bulgarian lands in 1860-1870 the Austrian-Hungarian Felix Kanitz painted many Bulgarian women. They were portrayed in their traditional lifestyle – in farm work, rose picking and animal husbandry. Rare images are in a festive atmosphere, as they are presented by Holiday Horo engraving.