Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Born in Koprivstitsa, she studied at the primary school in her own village. Graduated at the Female High School in Kiev with scholarship, Kirkovitch had been working in Plovdiv, Pirdop and Koprivstitsa. She was a principal of the First Female High School – Sofia and
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