TY  - JOUR
A1  - Colbert, Vivian
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
T1  - Queen Zenobia’s ‘Campaign’ for British Women’s Suffrage
JF  - thersites 12
N2  - This article focuses on the feminist reception of Zenobia of Palmyra in Great Britain during the long nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. A special focus lies on her reception by the British suffragettes who belonged to the Women’s Social and Political Union. Even though Zenobia’s story did not end happily, the warrior queen’s example served to inspire these early feminists. Several products of historical culture – such as books, pieces of art, newspaper articles and theatre plays – provide insight into the reception of her as an historical figure, which is dominated by the image of a strong and courageous woman. The article will shed light on how exactly Zenobia’s example was instrumentalised throughout the first feminist movement in Britain.
KW  - Zenobia
KW  - reception studies
KW  - British suffrage movement
KW  - nineteenth century
KW  - feminism
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/0.34679/thersites.vol12.186
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 12
SP  - 71
EP  - 94
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wieber, Anja
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Die palmyrenische Königin Zenobia als Werbeikone für Seife
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - This article analyses, as an example of the advertising of cosmetic products, a campaign launched by the US-American company “Johnson Soap” for their product, the facial soap “Palmolive”. Examining its ads of 1911 in which certain ancient exempla are employed, it becomes clear that the Palmyrene queen Zenobia and with her the semi-historical Semiramis and the more mythical Dido are aligned to the “1001 Nights” character Scheherazade. Since they are jointly labelled as “historically famous oriental queens” and because of the reference to Zenobia’s white skin, they fall into the fantasy of fair-skinned harem women and evoke thoughts of all the pleasures and comforts of the luxurious Orient. To the modern female customer of 1900 (well steeped in the knowledge of those ancient characters) Zenobia and the other exempla should serve as celebrities worth emulating. Above all they are deemed to be beautiful, and experts in cosmetics which would guarantee the effect of the product they are standing for. A finding that proves to be valid even in an advertising concept of today for the Syrian-German “Zhenobya-soap”.
KW  - Zenobia
KW  - classical reception
KW  - advertising (cosmetics, USA, ca. 1900)
KW  - orientalism
KW  - racist subtext
KW  - Dido
KW  - Semiramis
KW  - Scheherazade
KW  - Cleopatra
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.169
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 277
EP  - 323
ER  -