Culture in capitalist nations versus socialist nations.
S i m o n e t t a V e s p u c c i (1453-1476) was an Italian renaissance noblewoman from Genoa and the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence. She was renowned for being the greatest beauty of her age - certainly of the city of Florence - hence her nickname la bella Simonetta.
A School for the Higher Education of Daughters (c. 1860). Until the end of the 19th century, the privilege of attending a Gymnasium (a college-preparatory secondary school) was reserved solely for boys. The only institutions that offered girls an opportunity for higher education were the so-called Höhere Töchterschulen (Schools for the Higher Education of Daughters). These schools, however, did not prepare girls for further academic study, but rather for the task of managing a household. Accordingly, the course of study ended when the girls were 15 or 16 years old. Until the first girls’ Gymnasien opened in the 1890s, well-to-do parents who wanted to give their daughters an academic higher education sent them to private girls’ schools or boarding schools. Lithograph, c. 1860.
On this day in LIFE Magazine — May 22, 1964: Great New Star Barbra Streisand. See more photos of Barbra Streisand here.
Not published in LIFE. Gay rights event, 1971. In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, seen a full 40 years later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time. Read more here.
