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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Yoko Ono
 

Marta Pérez López, Samuel Míguez Blanco · 23 febrero 2018 18:08


Name of the male historic character
John Lennon

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Yoko Ono and John Lennon met at an art galery. John Lennon was a singer, he was born in Liverpool, he belonged the group of The Beatles. Yoko Ono was a japanese artist, she was born in Tokio.

Their relationship caused a lot of discomfort from the beginning.
From 1967 to 1980, they formed a very controversial couple with a concept of free love.

She exerted a great personal and professional influence on John Lennon and many people blamed her for the fall of the Beatles.She was a member of the music Fluxus Collective. She sang many songs and helped her husband. She was a singer when she met him.

The couple remained together for 13 years until 1980, a crazy fan of the musician, ended the life of Lennon and ruined the story of love. Lennon's murder left Yoko Ono a widow and a boy.

Still, she always lived in the shadow of John Lennon. She is currently leading the fight against the ' Frac King ' and his son Sean is a singer. Nowadays, she is still a singer.

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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
Martha Gellhorm
 

Adrián Vilariño Abelenda, Natalia Vázquez Fernández · 23 febrero 2018 22:02


Name of the male historic character
Ernest Hemingway

Explanation
Ernest Hemingway is an American writer and journalist like Martha Gellhorn. She dedicated one of her novels to Hemingway. They met in the course of a family trip to "Cayo Hueso" during the Christmas of 1936 after they married in 1940 and divorced five years later because she could not take it anymore, or so he said.

Finally he died on February 15, 1998 because of the suicide in London, she was sick and almost completely blind and Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961 with 61 years because of suicide.

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
Claude Cahun
 

Inka Souto Costa · 26 febrero 2018 15:44


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Claude Cahun, pseudonym of Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, born in 1894 and deceased in 1954 (aged 60), was a French photographer and writer. It was considered a non-binary genre, a revolutionary thing at that time.
Claude escaped from the Nazis, survived death and captured him in his best photographs

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