AGORA: Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history. A kind of purge that was apparently big business back then.

CRITICAL WOMEN HEADLINES
THE OSCARS: WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN? WFCC MEMBERS WEIGH IN
DISSING DUVERNAY: THE LESSONS OF SELMA
WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE JURY AWARD PRESENTED AT THE RATED SR FESTIVAL
RACIAL POLITICS IN HOLLYWOOD, AND THE ACADEMY '40 YEARS BEHIND MISSISSIPPI'
FRANKLY MY DEAR: MOLLY HASKELL REVISITS GONE WITH THE WIND
WOMEN'S WORK: CLUNY BROWN AND THE ILLUSIONIST
DISSING DUVERNAY: THE LESSONS OF SELMA
WOMEN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE JURY AWARD PRESENTED AT THE RATED SR FESTIVAL
RACIAL POLITICS IN HOLLYWOOD, AND THE ACADEMY '40 YEARS BEHIND MISSISSIPPI'
FRANKLY MY DEAR: MOLLY HASKELL REVISITS GONE WITH THE WIND
WOMEN'S WORK: CLUNY BROWN AND THE ILLUSIONIST
2/12/16
Thelma Adams Talks The Club
...Rhoda recalled the words said to her by a female film critic newly inducted into the Fraternal Order of the Gotham Film Critics at a recent studio awards party: "I'm used to being the only woman in the room."
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Thelma Adams is a member of The Women Film Critics Circle. Her second novel, The Last Woman Standing, will be published on July 1st.
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