Emmanuelle Davaïc
Hello !
My name is Emmanuelle, I am studying history of art and I am writing a thesis on contemporary russian women artists.
I'm your course facilitator for the *Women in Arts MOOC* by Centre Pompidou !
Location Paris
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to pragati mahajan
Dear Pragati Mahajan,
I found an online exhibition of Etel Adnan at Pera museum in Turkey !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Sandy Hamilton
Dear Sandy,
You don't have to remember everything, do it as your pace.
The sections "News" and "Bibliogaphy" is just in addition of the MOOC. -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
In addition to her taut yet cheerful paintings, Ms. Adnan also drew praise for her leporellos, books folded like an accordion on which she combined drawings, splashes of color and Arabic words and numbers. After discovering leporellos, which were popular with Japanese artists, she decided to appropriate the format for her own work.
In 2018, the...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
In a review of Ms. Adnan’s work at Callicoon Fine Arts gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2014, Karen Rosenberg wrote in The Times that the peak of Tamalpais was to Ms. Adnan what Mont Sainte-Victoire had been to Cézanne.
“We come to see Mount Tamalpais as both a specific landmark that offers reassurance to a nomadic artist (once exiled from her...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
She was 34 when she began to paint, in 1959.
Ms. Adnan returned to Lebanon in 1972 and shortly thereafter met Ms. Fattal, an artist, in Beirut. Ms. Adnan spent the next few years working as a cultural editor for two of the city’s daily newspapers.
After civil war broke out in 1975, she fled with Ms. Fattal to Paris. It was there that she wrote “Sitt...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
Her father changed the family’s surname to Adnan, which was his father’s first name, in 1932. Ms. Adnan has said that her father was “an unemployable man” by the age of 40 and that she grew up “with people who were defeated when they were still young.”
She left Lebanon in 1949 to study philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris on a scholarship. A few years later,...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
Ms. Adnan caught the attention of the international art world in her late 80s, when her paintings were included in Documenta 13, the contemporary art exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 2012. The invitation to the show resulted from a serendipitous visit by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Documenta 13’s director, to Lebanon, where she saw an exhibit of Ms. Adnan’s...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
Ms. Adnan also wrote numerous collections of poetry. Her latest, “Shifting the Silence,” was published in October 2020. Reviewing her previous collection, “Night,” for The New York Times Book Review, Benjamin Hollander described it as “a meditative heir to Nietzsche’s aphorisms, Rilke’s ‘Book of Hours’ and the verses of Sufi mysticism,” and “an intricate...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Alicia Escanilla
Etel Adnan, Lebanese American Author and Artist, Dies at 96
Her novel about a kidnapping in Lebanon has become a classic of war literature. She was in her 80s when her art started to draw international attention.By Nana Asfour
Nov. 14, 2021Etel Adnan, an influential Lebanese American writer who wrote a seminal novel about the Lebanese civil war and...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
'Mapping the studio' by Agnès Thurnauer :
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear Ineke,
The Guerrilla Girls are using artist's names who already passed away. They embellish their anonymity with an originality by taking as alter ego the names of women artists, such as Frida Kahlo or Hannah Höch, to remind the memory of all the great female names in art, who are, for them, too neglected by the history of art.
This is a collective...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
@MaryR
Thank you, we updated the link !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear Ineke,
We included Brice Dellsperger and Michel Journiac works because they are questionning gender identity.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Jesus Diaz
Thank you !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Paula Urrutia
Thank you so much Paula for this contribution !
I found more explanations about the chilean arpilleras :https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/ecritures-de-la-subversion-les-arpilleristas-chiliennes/
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Dear Sergei Kriukov,
We are talking here about history of art, but this is including sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, and even politics. -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Sue Tate
Welcome Sue ! Thank you for this contribution !
For those who want to know more about Pauline Boty, here is a little biography :
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/pauline-boty/I also invite all to listen to your interview with Katy Hessel...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Oxana Tronza
Dobro Pojalovat Oxana !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Liu Yiyu
Dear @LiuYiyu ,
We had an artist (dancer) from your country in a ZOOM show at Centre Pompidou ! She was great !
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/PRnptCG
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Monica Araya
Bienvenue Monica !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Nahla Soliman
Thank you so much for thoses discoveries !
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Dear Pragati Mahajan,
Through different artistic periods, we , indeed, includes the artistic work of women like Varvara Stepanova for the prints on fabrics (Avant-garde), Gunta Stölzl for the embroidery (Bauhaus).
Don't hesitate to share new artists with us!
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Thank you so much for your contribution !
Very interesting artists ! -
Welcome !
No worries, the contents of our MOOC is accessible for few months more and you have the opportunity to follow it at your own pace ! Good discoveries ! -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Emmanuelle Davaïc
Thank you Ineke ! I understand.
It is maybe inspired by Erik Satie but it is not him. Music was composed by Stubio BMC.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Diane Schofield
Interesting Diane,
Indeed, we have to watch the series very carefully. Keep in mind that most of them are entertaining as they are quite a big business these days. The screenwriter Dahvi Waller appears to have worked on Desperate Housewives and Mad Men, series that do not offer very original female characters !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear Ineke,
Here are some inteviews of Annette Messager :
https://www.facebook.com/FondationLouisVuitton/videos/interview-annette-messager/252786389148831/
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/annette-messager-2670/annette-messager-work-intuition
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Helena Vieira
Dear Helena,
Was it this one ?
https://www.leprogres.fr/loire/2014/07/22/un-vent-de-poesie-souffle-au-couvent-des-cordeliers
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Emmanuelle Davaïc made a comment
Yoko Ono's text THE FEMINIZATION OF SOCIETY from 1972 can be put in parallel with what Niki de Saint Phalle says about the fact that the feminine side is crushed by the masculine side :
"How are we going to go about this? This society is the very society that killed female freedom: the society that was built on female slavery. If we try to achieve our...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc made a comment
For people who missed Cindy Sherman exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, here is a link to a visit tour video of curators :
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@InekeFioole
I guess we are going to a world who people don't want to suffer anymore mentaly or physically. Or, at least, we choose how much it is worth to suffer (by changing our bodies for example).So, it's questioning many parts of the life like having children (as @MaryR said, not having a baby for women who lived a trauma or abuse), being a woman...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Kate Podolskaya
@CamilleBarberi
Welcome Camille !
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@InekeFioole You are welcome !
I can't talk about it personnaly, but I have to admit that when I realized that some women didn't like being pregnant or having children, I was shocked. But, it does happen.
I mean, people don't trust doctors automatically and it still can be a risk for some women to give birth... and Annegret Soltau is indeed questioning it. -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
It does exist ! But I never heard. Maybe it's an old expression.
We rather say "féministe avant l'heure" (= feminist in advance) -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
I love Christine de Pizan's life !
Very funny expression that I never heard :) Thank you Ineke ! -
Dear Ineke,
Thank you for this interesting observation ! I read more about Annegret Soltau and she was working both on bodily experience of pregnancy and motherhood.
In the video that we see, she is around 6 or 7 months pregnant. Indeed, the body is more questioning. She says in a TREBUCHET interview about an other artwork :
"For 'On the birthing...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
@MaryR Interesting !
Indeed, so many cultures were matrimonal. Liv Strömquist talk about it with humor in "The origin of the world" (2016).
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Diane Schofield
Interesting, Diane ! Are you talking about MoMA in NYC?
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear Ineke,
Feminist movements appeared long time ago, even during the antique area. Then, in the 13th century, we had women communities in Europes who were supporting each other. There is an interesting book of Aline Kiner about it : "The Night of the Beguines" (2017)
The Italian philosopher and poet Christine de Pizan (14-15th century) was also appointed... -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Jesus Diaz
What a story ! :)
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Diane Schofield
Dear Diane,
I agree, this question is confusing.
However, she initially have liked to work on feminism (1949 is the year of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex), but the historian Ernest Labrousse dissuaded her !If you open this page with Google, you can translate it in english to read it...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
Thank you Mary ! Very nice !
This exhibition is until April 1, 2022.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Jesus Diaz
Dear Jesus Diaz,
Actually, the poster for The Battleship Potemkin is the work of Rodchenko.
It was in the room 10 of the "Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism" Tate exhibition.You can read more about it here :
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Yes, "avant-garde" is a military term for submitting troops ahead of an army's advance to explore and secure terrain.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
@InekeFioole Not surprised ! My respects to Vera.
Indeed, it is very discouraging but we are still the half of humanity and we have to continue to share our talents to the world ! I notice more and more initiatives from new generation !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
The narration is so great !
Say hello to Petchorine ! -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear @InekeFioole ,
Thank you so much for your feedback ! I really appreciate.
But this is not the end, I am here 3 weeks again ! And I will do my best to help you all !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Barbara C
Very interesting, and... alarming !
Actually, for those who are living in UK, I found a participatory site that lists the statues in each city and compiles gender statistics. Anyone can participate by registering and posting photos.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
I totally understand...
Sometimes works cannot be "shown" for copyright reasons. This means that those who illustrate her words are part of the museum's collection. -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
@InekeFioole
With pleasure !You can check the books on Worldcat and choose your language !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
@InekeFioole
Alright, I just learned a dutch word :)
Thank you ! -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Diane Schofield
@DianeSchofield @ShaunaBrennan
Dear Diane, dear Shauna,
The bibliography is only a non-exhaustive list of books related to the course for those who wish to share, discuss or discover new writings.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
Dear Mary,
She speaks very fast, indeed !
If needs, you can change the setting under the video and choose 0.75 instead of 1 for the playback speed. -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Georgina Owen
@MaryR
Barbara Hepworth is not on the panel but for those who are curious to know more about her, please find a little biography here:https://awarewomenartists.com/artiste/barbara-hepworth/
And here, a BBC documentary film about her:
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
I agree !
And the keywords are sufficient on their own !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Actually, curator Jean-Marie Gallais told that it was her dream to exhibit all her writings !
https://www.claudinecolin.com/en/2397-writing-is-drawing-based-on-an-idea-by-etel-adnan
So, she left the world with an ongoing exhibition not only in France, but also in United States at Guggenheim...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear Ineke,
You don't have to buy them.
Here is only a non-exhaustive bibliography linked to the theme of the week. You can share books that interest you more, discuss them, or discover new ones ! -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
What is Musea ? Do you have a link ?
Thank you ! @InekeFioole -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Roberta B
Thanks for joining us !
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Natalia Fuchs
@MaryR
Indeed, the economy play an important role. In her book "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence" Kristen R. Ghodsee explains how state socialism has allowed a kind of emancipation from above. Later, capitalism has conquered Russia so quickly that women are torn between these two models.Here are...
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Hello Sandy,
We opened the Women in Arts MOOC the 15th of October but there is no date to respect. You are free to follow the MOOC at your convenience. Only the news and the bibliography arrive one week after another.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
@InekeFioole
Dear Ineke,
Indeed, curator of the exhibition, Jean-Marie Gallais, confirmed that all the Etel Adnan's artworks that you are talking about do belong together !
Thank you for your question ! -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Marıe Woods
Thank you Marie ! Do you have any advice ?
Are there any that you read ? -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Marıe Woods
Thank you Marie for online resources ! Very interesting !
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@NataliaFuchs Thank you !
I added your thesis in the bibliography of the Week 7 titled "What about now?"
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
Dear Ineke,
I will get back to you soon, I am going to ask our curators.
In the meantime, an exhibition started this month at the Centre Pompidou Metz entitled "Writing is Drawing". It lasts until February 21, 2022. You can find more information here:
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Ineke Fioole
All the links are well working ! Thank you Ineke !
I really appreciate (and discover!) Alida Pott and Rineke Dijkstra.
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@InekeFioole Yes, Pop Art course is without mentors now.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Kate Podolskaya
And, if she is older, No Kidding Press is a very good russian editor which is covering writings of women:
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Kate Podolskaya
Hello Kate, thank you for joining us !
Few month ago, I discovered that in Moscow, there is a "Women Museum" (online). I don't know how old is your daughter but they are editing women's stories for kids !
From Natalia Goncharova to Papucha's tale.Here it is:
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@InekeFioole Can't wait to read it !
At university, we didn't studied Soljenitsyn much because his approach was more documentary than literary on the theme of the camps.
Varlam Chalamov's Kolyma Stories (1954-73) is exceptional, but it all depends on the translation. The better is to read it in russian I guess...They both spent time in the gulag and...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Diane Schofield
Very interesting ! I don't know her !
I found a little biography and articles concerning her here :https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/paula-modersohn-becker/?from=search
And also, a little biography of Emily Carr:
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Natalia Fuchs
Thank you Natalia. I am very happy to see you here.
I hope that the MOOC will be of interest to english-speaking Russians too. We have a very cosmopolitan community, so feel free to share and discuss ! -
He wrote short stories like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) that takes your breath away. After that, I would advice you to read Nadejda Tolokonnikova (Member of Pussy Riot) who spent two years in colonnies in 2012-13 in Mordovia.
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@InekeFioole Not yet ! But I heard it is one of his best ! He wrote "Cancer ward" ten years after his own hospitalization ! This book circulated in "samizdat", which means unofficially.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Shauna Brennan
Thank you Shauna !
Here is a short portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe :
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/georgia-okeeffe/And for those who are currently in Paris, there is an exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe at Centre Pompidou until December 6, 2021 !
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/60bdJRm -
@MaryR It's a pleasure. I studied Russian literature, and it was a great time in my life, so I'm happy to share.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Mary R
@MaryR Very nice !
Here is a presentation of Jenny Saville :
https://gagosian.com/artists/jenny-saville/And for those who are currently in Florence, there is an exhibition of Jenny Saville works at Museo Nove Centro until February, 20, 2022 :
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For those who are interested in Russian literature, you can start with:
- A hero of our time by Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
- The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol (1842)
- Poor folk by Fiodor Dostoevsky (1846)
- First Love by Ivan Turgenev (1860)
- The Silver Dove by Andrei Bely (1909)
- Love is the Heart of Everything: The Love Letters... -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Barbara C
@BarbaraC Interesting !
For our learners, here is an explanation of what Bloomsbury circle was
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/bloomsbury -
Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Jill Hind
In France, in 2018, the average age of women who gave birth to their first child was 28.8 years old, so raising babies is not the main reason to rethink their career as an artist.
For those who understand french and are interested in what is going on in the French art world, you can check out this detailed report in each artistic field...
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Evgeniya Popova
Welcome Evgeniya ! Feel free to share us your art if you want to !
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Thank you Mary! Yes, we will talk about her from next week!
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Hamish Morrison
Thank you ! We fixed the link! We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Hamish Morrison
@HamishMorrison Thanks for your warning, we've fixed it! We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Emmanuelle Davaïc replied to Jill Hind
Indeed, but unfortunately, we lose nearly half (79% initially) of women after their heritage studies and a third (66% initially) after fine arts.
