Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows

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Baroness Elsa van Freytag

Ángela Mayo Dosil, niko pato ces · 25 febrero 2018 12:32

Name of the male historic character
Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp and Elsa von Freytag was two artists. They was friends and Elsa gave him some ideas like the battery but Marcel Duchamp was more famouse than Elsa von Freytag. Another sculpture with a big impact was "the fountain", Marcel affirmed that the work was totally his but there are a lot of proofs that say the work could was original of the baroness.

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Name of the female historic character
Maruja Mallo

Alejandra García Fernández · 28 febrero 2018 19:19

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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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Martha Coston

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

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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
Coretta Scott King

Bruno Vázquez Pérez, Uxía Fernández Blanco · 24 febrero 2018 18:08

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Martin Luther king

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Coretta Scott King, was a writer and, an advocate for LGBT rights and a civil rights fighter just like her husband Martin Luther King. In 2004, she won the Gandhi Peace Prize. Months after her husband was murdered she became a very good politic. Coretta King reaffirmed his opposition to the segregation of the black population, participating in a series of protests that inspired the entire country to demonstrate against racist policies.
She was born on April 27, 1927 United States Marion, Alabama, United States and she died 30 de enero de 2006 Bandera de México Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, México because she had ovarian cancer.

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Geography and History of Ames

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