She cleaned a blocked fuel line with her hat pin and used her garter as insulation material.

Their happiness declines as the reality of the pressures, norms, and limitations they experience are realised.

adopted her maternal grandmother’s maiden name “Lynn” as her stage name when she was eleven, joining Madame Harris’s Kracker Kabaret Kids

Kobylianska demythologized the prevailing notions about the idealized woman by showing that there was little romantic purity in village women’s lives.

‘These hard-won freedoms could be taken away from us at a moment’s notice’.