Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows

Name of the female historic character
Marie Curie

Iván Castosa Mandiá, Rosana Fernández Martínez · 21 febrero 2018 21:46

Name of the male historic character
Pierre Curie

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Marie Curie was a polish scientist, she migrated from Poland to France where she met her husband Pierre Curie. They was pioneers in the field of the study of the ratiation. Whith their investigations, they discovered a new elements: the radium and the polonium. Marie Curie was the first women in the history that won a nobel prize, concretely in physics. Years later she win alone (her husband died) for second time a nobel prize, but it was of chemistry. Marie Curie was the first person to win two nobel prizes in diferent fields.
We say Marie Curie is a women in the shadow; in the past she wasnt known, only her husband Pierre Curie. Marie Curie had mutch of problems for got, for example, the nobel prize. According the person who organize the nobel prizes, she didnt could receive the nobel prize becouse she was with other man wasnt her husband (althought the nobel was for her) while when she went to could the prize with Pierre Curie she didnt have any problems.

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Name of the female historic character
Gala (Elena Ivanovna Diákonova)

Andrés Castelo Corral, Lucía Dieste Piñeiro · 27 febrero 2018 17:17

Name of the male historic character
Dalí (Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech)

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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
Alice Guy

Carlos Iglesias Seoane, Laura Fernández Terán · 26 febrero 2018 20:57

Name of the male historic character
Hebert Baché

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Alice Guy made movies before men, but the machismo of the time silenced its historical contribution. She made the first fiction movie in history. During his career he filmed thousands of movies, but when he married Hebert Blaché, and then they separated, his career ended, leaving her out of the story. All her works she attributed to the men who worked with her.

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Name of the female historic character
Mary Anne Evans

Rebeca Rivas Gómez · 23 febrero 2018 21:43

Name of the male historic character
George Eliot

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Mary Anne Evans was a very reconiced writer. She used the name of George Eliot because at that time women's work wasn't valued . Mary didn´t want the people to think that she was a romantic novelist because she had a relation with the writer George H. Lewes. It was a scandal in those times. She dressed up with man clothes in order to look like a man. Evans was important because she fought for women's rights. She was forgotten by history because everything that her husband did was considered as better than what she had done.

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