12 Monuments dedicated to amazing women

http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/


Ever hear that women are the fairer or weaker sex? While not every woman (and not every man for that matter) can lift over a hundred pounds many historical women have been as strong (or even far stronger) than their male counterparts in other critical ways and at crucial times. From martyr French heroin Joan of Arc who fought against the British for the country’s territories to those that played a key role during the World Wars, women have demonstrated time and time again that they are not inferior to men. From around the world here are some of the most interesting monuments dedicated to amazing women of history – as well as one quite different memorial to Amsterdam’s “working girls.”


In Zalongo, northwestern part of Greece, lies a grandiose monument dedicated to the Women of Kassope. Representing the “dance of Zalogos” it was created by sculptor Zogolopoulos right above the hill, on the rocks where the Souliot women and their children committed suicide, not letting the men of the Turk Ali Pasha to catch them.


Located on the Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, The Famous Five or The Valiant Five statues were built in the memory of Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards. The five women from Alberta became famous for asking the Supreme Court of Canada if “the word ‘Persons’ in section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?” It was them who to started the women’s rights movement in Canada in 1920s, because at that time women weren’t allowed to vote.


The Unknown Woman Worker monument is located in Belfast, UK, outside the Europa Buscentre and is dedicated to all women who work. It’s the city’s small tribute to those who worked hard to build the largest and most famous linen industry in the world.


The National Women’s Monument or the Vrouemonument from Bloemfontein, South Africa is dedicated to those more than 27,000 martyr women who died during the Boer War, in the British concentration camps.


Of course, the list wouldn’t be complete without the Red Light District Statue in Amsterdam. Former prostitute, Mariska Majoor, got the idea to build a statue to all the famous “working” girls in the world, especially those from Amsterdam.

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