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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Lee Miller
 

Daniel Mato Gómez, Sara Pazos Barreiro · 26 febrero 2018 07:44


Name of the male historic character
Man Ray

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Lee Miller was born on April 23, 1907 in Poughkeepsie.
in 1929 she moved to Paris with the intention of becoming an apprentice to Man Ray
She opened her own photo studio.
Sometimes, she was in charge of making fashionable photographs commissioned to Man Ray for that he could concentrate on his painting, so many of the photographs taken during this period and attributed to Man Ray were actually taken by Lee Miller.

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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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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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Name of the female historic character
Emilie Flögue
 

Andrea Rodríguez Ramos, Teo Martínez de Lorenzo · 22 febrero 2018 18:57


Name of the male historic character
Gustav Klimt

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Gustav Klimt was an austriac painter who excel because of his erotic and ornamental paints. He met Emilie Flögue at 1890, who was his partner for the rest of his life. But Gustav frecuently cheated her and this was a discussion reason in their relation.
Emilie was a designer and also Gustav's muse. All of the clothes from the paints of her husband were designed from Emilie.
She hasn's got any recognition.

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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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