{"id":1582,"date":"2006-09-17T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2006-09-17T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T11:15:48","slug":"the-powerful-women-of-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"The powerful women of Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on My London Your London I&#8217;ve an account of the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/mylondonyourlondon.com\/?p=113\">Myths of Bengal<\/a> exhibition at the British Museum. It has wonderful striking images of powerful women &#8211; unfortunately they&#8217;re all goddess, and they all get tamed in the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/WindowsLiveWriter\/ThepowerfulwomenofBengal_A5BD\/1british7.jpg\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/WindowsLiveWriter\/ThepowerfulwomenofBengal_A5BD\/1british_thumb5.jpg\" width=\"240\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a> But the exhibition also has some lovely domestic quilts, that show women making the most of the opportunities available to them, such as the one from which&nbsp;this detail of British soldiers is taken &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on My London Your London I&#8217;ve an account of the Myths of Bengal exhibition at the British Museum. It has wonderful striking images of powerful women &#8211; unfortunately they&#8217;re all goddess, and they all get tamed in the end. But the exhibition also has some lovely domestic quilts, that show women making the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}