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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

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Chien-Shiung Wu
 

Hugo Martínez Velo, Jesús Altuve, Uxía Iglesias Soñora · 23 febrero 2018 18:34


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 Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning

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Marie Curie
 

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


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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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Carmen de Burgos Colombine
 

Nerea Sánchez Lens · 21 febrero 2018 15:42


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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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Lee Krasner
 

Diego Caeiro Costoya, Nerea Barbazán Suárez · 28 febrero 2018 18:29


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Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock was a USA famous painter and a very important figure in the moviment of the abstract expressionism paint. Pollock was famous for his different and new style of paint, he splash paint. His woman, Lee Krasner, was another woman in the dark. She was a pianter too, but she didn't became famous and people didn't knew about she and they didn't gave the merit that she desserve, but she helps a lot of times to Pollock with his paints.
She was born in the 27 in October of 1908, and she died in the 19 of June in 1984, with 75 years old. Her husband, Jackson, was born in the 28 in January of 1912 and he died in the 11 in August of 1956, when he was 44 years old.

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Françoise Gilot
 

Joel López Palacios, Martina Baliña Abad · 25 febrero 2018 15:58


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Pablo Ruiz Picasso

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Picasso was a great painter and sculptor of the 20th century, he had seven wives, among them Françoise Gilot, a young law student, artist and sculptor. They met when she was twenty-one years old and he was sixty-one years old. Pablo painted in some of his works Françoise, one of the most famous was "La femme-Fleur". Françoise not only inspired Picasso to make some of his paintings, but also helped him to paint some of them. She also created several works and sculpted many statues, but she was not recognized as an artist, for the people she was only Picasso's wife.

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