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Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion

Learn more about the screen goddesses and works featured in Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion.

A woman with a dark hair wearing a plain dress stands in front of a door that a tiger is looking through. She's seemingly unaware, peering out of frame. It's a vintage black and white image of Mabel Normand.
Bethan Johnson and Matt Millikan

The weaker sex

These five actors not only did their own stunts, they shattered notions of female fragility.
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An actress of Asian appearance (Anna May Wong) is dressed in stylish clothes and staring defiantly into the camera. The photo is black and white
Zing Tsjeng

She attracts their stares

Anna May Wong is walking down a street in Shanghai, 1936.
Emma Stone in Cruella (2021), © Disney+, courtesy Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo
Anna Bogutskaya

Ambition looks good on her

Forget the woman scorned, Anna Bogutskaya celebrates the ambitious women who not only didn’t need love or men, but dared to take whatever they could.

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