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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Frida Kahlo
 

María Villaverde Temes, Raúl Figueira Jamardo · 17 febrero 2018 14:31


Name of the male historic character
Diego Rivera

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Frida Kahlo was a famous mexican painter and also a feminist, very known for her artworks where she painted herself with animals and flowers. For many years her talent was eclipsed by Diego Rivera her husband who was also a famous painter.
Nowadays Frida is a mundial referent of the mexican paint.

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Name of the female historic character
Marcela Gracia Ibeas
Elisa Sánchez Loriga
 

Andrea Fernández Fermoso, Paula Núñez Amado · 27 febrero 2018 18:50


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Elisa and Marcela were the first women´s that get married in Spain. In that time it was forbidden, so they had to get married hidden, because of that, Elisa had to inpersonate a man. When they were at their wedding ceremony, the parish priest discovered that they were two women. They were persecuted and fined but nevertheless the union was never annulled.

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Silveria Fañanas García
 

Adriana Cifuentes Zamalloa, Dominic Iglesias Rodriguez · 23 febrero 2018 19:39


Name of the male historic character
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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Name of the female historic character
Rosalía de Castro.
 

Lucía González Ariza, Marcos Granja Grille · 23 febrero 2018 20:39


Name of the male historic character
Manuel Murgía

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Rosalía de Castro, is currently the Galician person who is in the field of literature (specifically poetry) most recognized in Galicia. His poems highlight the great sensitivity he has and the pain he suffers, a poem that represents it very well is "Negra Sombra". Her husband, Manuel Murguía was the person who prompted him to write, however because she was a woman he was responsible for the publication "Cantares Gallegos" and he didn't help she when the female position was not so favourable. But still it could not be kept in the shadows, someone like that, who wrote in a language that was not accepted at that time and that was such an important part of the resurgence can not go unnoticed and for it, now she has the thing that she won with her effort.

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Name of the female historic character
Agnodice.
 

Cintia Carbia Mato · 28 febrero 2018 20:08


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Agnodice was a woman from ancient Greece. She was a medical Athenian, midwife and gynecologist, considered the first known gynecologist. She was judged and in response to her judgment happened one of the first known women's revolts in history. She was born into a high society family in Athens. Her desire to become a doctor began when she realized the large number of women that suffered in the childbirth.

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