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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Amal Clooney
 

Jessica Natalia Pinheiro, Raúl Suárez Cea · 22 febrero 2018 20:45


Name of the male historic character
George Clooney

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Amal Clooney is a Lebanese-British lawyer, activist and writer. She is a lawyer for Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in International Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Extradition. His clients include Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against extradition. He has also represented the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. She is married to the American actor George Clooney.

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Name of the female historic character
Martha Coston
 

Brais Lado Rodríguez, Laura de la Torre González · 23 febrero 2018 13:58


Name of the male historic character
Benjamin Franklin Coston

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Martha Coston married Benjamin Franklin Coston a promising inventor, at age 19 he was supervisor of a pyrotechnic laboratory, excessive exposure to unprotected chemicals caused a rapid deterioration of his health he died at age 26.
Martha Coston faced her widowhood in charge of four children at age 21, two years later her mother and two of her children died.
Martha Coston found herself without money to support her family and decided to develop an invention that her husband had not managed to complete until he got the patent. The idea was to create a flare that, when exploding, spilled several colors to communicate different messages through combinations of light signals.
She is a shadow figure because the project she did with her husband's idea was signed in the name of her deceased husband because at that time they did not let the women sign their name, only the men could sign. When that law disappeared, the honors went to Martha Coston but at that time she was very old.

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Name of the female historic character
María Luz Morales
 

Malena Salas Pazos · 23 febrero 2018 20:50


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Name of the female historic character
Lise Meitner
 

María Peña Rodríguez, Ruben Noya Doce · 23 febrero 2018 14:04


Name of the male historic character
Otto Hahn

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Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was a German chemist and Lise Meither (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist who investigates radiation and nuclear physics. Also, in 1918, she worked with Otto Hahn in an investigation where they discovered protactinium. But later, she had to leave Germany, forced by the Laws of the Nazi government. Together, in 1938, they discovered the nuclear fission of uranium and thorium, and, for this discovery, Hahn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for his pioneering work in the field of radioactivity, however, Meitner was never recognized as a co-author of this discovery because she was a woman. It's often considered one of the most obvious examples of scientific findings discovered by women and overlooked by the Nobel committee for being a woman, but in her honor the chemical element 109 was named "meitnerio".

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Carmen de Burgos Colombine
 

Nerea Sánchez Lens · 21 febrero 2018 15:42


Name of the male historic character
Perico el de los Palotes

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Belongs to the generation of 98. She is considered the first professional journalist in history. She had to hide her reformist profile with a multitude of pseudonyms such as Perico el de los Palotes. Her marriage was a disappointment because her husband was an infidel. When her son dies, she abandons her husband and, together with her daughter, settles in Madrid. From 1902 he collaborated with the newspaper El Globo. At the end of 1906 he resumed his teaching and journalistic work and launched a campaign in El Heraldo de Madrid in favor of female suffrage. With the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931, the new constitution recognized civil marriage, divorce and female voting. She died at sixty years of age,and was buried in the civil cemetery of Madrid.
After the Civil War and the victory of the Franco regime, his name was included in the list of prohibited authors and his books disappeared from libraries and bookstores.

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