Statuary
Statue of tragic British singer Amy Winehouse in Camden, London. I took this picture in 2018. Amy was only 27 when she died. Back to statues. Of course you get statues of known people but you also get more general representative statues. Known people might include Winston Churchill or Queen Victoria while representative statues might depict coal miners or suffragettes. A fairly recent study of American statues of known people revealed that only 7% were of women while over here in Great Britain it was not much better - with only 13% being of women. Children could easily get the wrong impression for the statue arithmetic suggests that men are inherently more important and have achieved more noteworthy things. To accompany this blogpost I have picked six photographs of women's statues. It was pleasing to discover that there are several statues of Rosa Parks but in my opinion, the best one is in Essex County, New Jersey outside the courthouse. Rosa is clearly sitting on th...