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Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

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Maruja Mallo
 

Alejandra García Fernández · 28 febrero 2018 19:19


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Lilian Disney
 

Carla Redondo Porto, Raúl Pérez Agra · 21 febrero 2018 21:37


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Walt Disney

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As in many other stories of important people in which the woman was in the background, Lillian Disney was one of them. Her husband, Walt Disney, and she loved each other very much. Few know that Lillian was the one who in 1928 (already created Walt Disney Studios) chose the name of Mickey since Walt wanted to put him Mortimer. Walt adored her and that's why he had all his proposals in mind. When they got married they had a daughter and later they adopted another. Two big ones of the animation that follow today present their most famous caricature, Mickey Mouse.

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Mileva Marić
 

David Rouco Almuiña, Inés Pazos Kim · 23 febrero 2018 17:14


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Albert Einstein

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In 1896 Mileva Maric met Albert Einstein at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich where women were accepted, which was not usual in those days. Mileva was four years older than Einstein, but they had a lot of things in common and they were in the same grade. They started a relationship but before their marriage, Mileva got pregnant. They had a girl, called Lieserl who died of an illness shortly after the birth. Years later they got married and had two children, Hans Albert and Eduard who suffered from schizophrenia. She didn’t finish her studies because she wanted to take care of her children and support the work of her husband. In 1919 they divorced. Three years later, Einstein gave a part of the Nobel Prize money to Mileva, and she spent all this money on caring for their second son. Some people think that Mileva contributed to Einstein’s theories while others say she didn't give important help in his work. She died at the age of 72.

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 Margaret Hamilton.
 

Laura Montaña Mata, Mateo Pardal Vila · 22 febrero 2018 15:37


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Neil Armstrong.

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Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist systems engineer. Her most famous intervencion was the Apolo 11 mision when the human step the moon for the first time. She also gets some awards for her programms but, Neil Armstrong was the first person in the moon so he was so much famous than Hamilton. Whe he went out of their rocket all the world was see him on tv but people still inoring that, without Margaret help, the Saturno V could arrive to the moon.

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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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