Sisters Under the Skin
by George Heymont
Sept. 8, 2011
Sisterhood was a powerful concept long before the Suffragette movement gained momentum. Greek mythology referred to the Pleiades and Hesperides as “the seven sisters.”
There were literary sisters (Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte) as well as astronomical sisters (the “seven sisters” are in the Pleiades star cluster within the constellation of Taurus). William Shakespeare began The Tragedy of Macbeth with an ominous gathering of the “weird sisters” while Richard Wagner made Brunnhilde and her eight warrior maiden sisters an important part of Die Walkure.
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Two new films take radically different perspectives on sisterhood. One focuses on twin sisters from the San Francisco Bay area who share a unique medical history. . . . .
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