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THE WOMEN CONDITION
English
Jane Austen
Born in England in 1775 and died in 1817, she was a British feminist writer;
Context: women had no personal freedoms, they always had to approach a man;
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Italian
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Main characters: Andrea Sperelli, Elena Muti, Maria Ferres;
Andrea, used to considering only the symbolic and not the factual value of things, ends up being overwhelmed by the superposition of reality and fiction, represented by the superposition of the two women Elena and Maria;
In the novel 'Il Piacere', written by Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1888, two types of woman are presented in contrast to each other: Elena Muti, sensual and passionate, and Maria Ferres, religious and deeply tied to rigid moral values;
The contrast between Elena and Maria is also represented in the name: the first recalls the one who started the Trojan war, the second the mother of Christ.
Art
Frida Kahlo
A misshapen leg, hidden with long skirts, combined with flowers on the head and a black monociglio, have made her image an emblem of unconventional beauty;
She has been able to make her body a manifest, showing the public a disruptive femininity;
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Frida Takes on 32 surgical operations and, bedridden in solitude, starts painting. Thanks to the mirror installed in her room she begins to portray herself as a model: naked, without filters, with extreme realism;
The eyebrows and the hair of the mustache contrast with the traditional aesthetic canons, but she manages to make sensual the strength and the will to express herself without alterations;
With her art, she transforms pain into beauty.
History
Suffragettes
The term 'suffreagettes' derives from the word suffrage, indicating the meaning of voting;
These women were called with contempt 'suffragettes', indicating the woman who struggles or works to obtain recognition of the full dignity, thus partly coinciding with the term feminist;
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The first movements for women's equality were already born during the French revolution in the 19th century;
In England, since 1869, the movement took on importance, as the protest spread nationwide. In 1897 the "National Union of Women's Suffrage" was founded, but never got support from the male part of the population;
It was only with the law of 2 July 1928 that voting suffrage was extended to all women in the United Kingdom over the age of 21.
Science
Rosalind Franklin
In 1951 she managed to perfect X-ray diffraction, photographing the structure of the DNA molecule;
Rosalind never received a nobel prize, unlike two other contemporary scientists who were dealing with the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick;
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In 1956 she fell ill with ovarian cancer, probably due to the frequent exposure to X-rays which caused her to die in 1958 when she was only 37 years old;
Rosalind Franklin's missed nobel was the result of a strong discrimination and social injustice towards women that characterized many centuries of human history.
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