The ShowMe Project

Short Histories Of Women

Misrepresented, Maligned & Marginalized

Everywhere

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Maligned Women

Maligned women are purposefully demonized and demeaned via propaganda. These women are usually powerful or advocating change, and it’s often their morality that is attacked, though it can also be their intelligence or appearance. Think Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, Wu Zetian and Catherine the Great.

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Marie Antoinette

The last queen of France was vilified to lend credibility to the French Revolution that saw her imprisoned, demeaned and beheaded. She also never said, “Let them eat cake!”

Cleopatra

The last pharaoh of Egypt expertly ruled a huge swathe of the Mediterranean coast and held out for 21 years against the Romans, who demonized her as a temptress in order to stop Roman women from thinking they too could have power.