Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Cinema directors / Producers

Neully-sur-Seine, 29-10-1930 — La Jolla (San Diego, California, United States), 21-05-2002

Review: Niki de Saint Phalle was a French artist who gained worldwide fame in the 1960s with her voluptuous and colourful feminine figures. Recognised as one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century, her most famous work is the monumental f

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Cinema directors / Producers

Neully-sur-Seine (Francia), 29-10-1930 — La Jolla (San Diego, California, Estados Unidos), 21-05-2002

Review: Niki de Saint Phalle fue una artista francesa que alcanzó fama mundial en los años 60 con sus voluptuosas y coloridas figuras femeninas. Reconocida como una de las creadoras más influyentes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, su obra más célebre es u

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Activists > Feminists (activists)

Tarragona, 01-02-1918 — Barcelona, 09-09-2014

Review: Montserrat Abelló és una poeta, traductora i militant feminista catalana. Començà la seva trajectòria pública quan tenia més de quaranta anys i després de passar-ne vint a l’exili. És autora de dotze poemaris, d’articles de crítica literària i de m

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Tarragona, 01-02-1918 — Barcelona, 09-09-2014

Review:   Montserrat Abelló is a Catalan poet, translator and feminist militant. She began her public career when she was more than forty years old and after spending twenty years in exile. She is the author of twelve collections of poems, plus literary

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Directors (performing arts)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photography designers and technicians
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors

Belgrado, 30-11-1946

Review: Marina Abramović es una de las artistas contemporáneas más importantes y reconocidas del mundo. Por su obra y amplia actividad en el performance se le ha apodado como “la madrina del performance”. Su trabajo -tras más de cinco décadas- se consolida

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• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists
• Writers > Poets

Icod de los Vinos (Tenerife, España), 1995

Review: En su primera novela, Panza de burro, un éxito editorial con más de diecisiete ediciones y traducida a varios idiomas, Andrea Abreu explora los límites difusos entre el amor y la amistad. La novela narra el despertar a la vida de dos niñas de clase

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

Roma; c. 300 — c. 384

Review: Poeta i aristòcrata romana que del s. IV dC. Igual que el seu marit, va ocupar un lloc destacat en la defensa dels cultes mistèrics i orientals de la religió romana. Encara que sempre va estar relacionada amb ell en l'àmbit públic, va ser una perso

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

Roma; c. 300 — c. 384

Review: Roman poet and aristocrat of the 4th century AD. Like her husband, she occupied a prominent position in the defense of the mystical and oriental cults of the Roman religion. Although she has always been related to him in the public sphere, she was

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

Roma; c. 300 — c. 384

Review: Poeta y aristócrata romana del s. IV d. C. Al igual que su marido, ocupó un puesto destacado en la defensa de los cultos mistéricos y orientales de la religión romana. Aunque siempre relacionada con él en el ámbito público, fue una persona influyen

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors

Tuscumbia, 27-06-1880 — Easton, 01-06-1968

Review: Helen Keller fue una educadora estadounidense, defensora de los ciegos y sordos y cofundadora de la ACLU. Afectada por una enfermedad a la edad de 2 años, Keller quedó ciega y sorda. A partir de 1887, la maestra de Keller, Anne Sullivan, la ayudó a

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• Activists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Tuscumbia. Alabama, 27-06-1880 — Easton. Connecticut, 01-06-1968

Review: Helen Keller was an American educator, advocate for the blind and deaf, and co-founder of the ACLU. Stricken with illness at the age of 2, Keller became blind and deaf. Starting in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous p

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• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Activists

Tuscumbia, 27-06-1880 — Easton, 01-06-1968

Review: Helen Keller va ser una educadora estatunidenca, defensora dels cecs i sords i cofundadora de l’ACLU. Afectada per una malaltia als 2 anys, Keller va quedar cega i sorda. A partir de 1887, la mestra de Keller, Anne Sullivan, la va ajudar a progress

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Humanistics > Sociologists
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > English

Cedarville (Illinois), 06-09-1860 — Chicago, 21-05-1935

Review: Una de las figuras más relevantes del feminismo pacifista de finales del s. XIX y primeras décadas del s. XX. 

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > in > English

Enugu, 15-09-1977

Review: Su posición como escritora joven africana educada en Nigeria y EEUU, le ha permitido analizar en sus novelas las consecuencias de los estereotipos sobre etnias y culturas, destacando el papel de las mujeres y el sexismo al que se enfrentan, los pro

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Philanthropists
• Writers

Milán (Italia); 16-05-1718 — 09-01-1799

Review: Maria Gaetana Agnesi fue una matemática, filósofa y teóloga italiana muy famosa en su época en Europa. Su obra más importante _“ Instituciones Analíticas”_, fue traducida a varios idiomas y utilizada para aprender matemáticas durante más de cincuen

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Philanthropists
• Writers

Milán (Italia); 16-05-1718 — 09-01-1799

Review: Maria Gaetana Agnesi va ser una matemàtica, filòsofa i teòloga italiana molt famosa en la seua època a Europa. La seua obra més important, Instituzioni Analitiche, va ser traduïda a diversos idiomes i utilitzada per a aprendre matemàtiques durant m

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Philanthropists
• Writers

Milan (Italy); 16-05-1718 — 09-01-1799

Review: Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a mathematician, philosopher and theologist from Italy, quite famous in Europe in her time. Her most important work, Instituzioni Analitiche, was translated into several languages and used to learn mathematics for over fift

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Midwives

Athens; 4th century BCE

Review: Agnodice was a Greek physician and gynaecologist who lived during the 4th century BC. She studied medicine in Egypt and practiced as a doctor in Athens, disguised as a man. Her recognition among women caused suspicion among the rest of the doctors

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Midwives

Atenas; 4th century BCE

Review: Agnódice  fue una médica y ginecóloga griega que vivió durante el siglo IV a.C. Estudió medicina en Egipto y la ejerció en Atenas, disfrazada de hombre. Su reconocimiento entre las mujeres, provocó el recelo del resto de médicos que la acusaron de

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Midwives

Atenes; 4th century BCE

Review: Agnòdice  va ser una metgessa i ginecòloga grega que va viure durant el segle IV aC. Va estudiar medicina a Egipte i la va exercir a Atenes, disfressada d'home. El seu reconeixement entre les dones va provocar el recel de la resta de metges que la

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Story writers

Colònia, 15 — Bayas, 59

Review: Agripina la Menor (15-59) va ser filla de Germànic i d’Agripina la Major, germana de l'emperador Calígula, esposa de Claudi i mare de Neró. De xicoteta va perdre la seua família a causa dels drets dinàstics i va ser conscient que el preu per l'impe

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Story writers

Colonia, 15 — Bayas, 59

Review: Agripina la Menor (15-59) fue hija de Germánico y de Agripina la Mayor, hermana del emperador Calígula, esposa de Claudio y madre de Nerón. De pequeña perdió a su familia a causa de los derechos dinásticos y fue consciente de que el precio por el I

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Story writers

Cologne, 15 — Baiae, 59

Review: Agrippina the Younger (15-59 AD) was the daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, sister of emperor Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. As a child, she lost her family due to dynastic rights and became aware that the price for the

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• Writers > Poets

Valencia; 12th century

Review: Andalusian author who, much like her contemporaries, represented a powerful feminine voice who discussed, flattered, appreciated and understood composition and metrical techniques. Her verses are written in a classical eastern genre, the qasida, wh

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Arabic

València?; c. 12th century

Review: Autora andalusina que, com les seues contemporànies, representa una potent veu de dona que debat, afalaga, estima i coneix les tècniques de la composició, de la mètrica. Els seus versos segueixen el gènere clàssic oriental de la càssida, la combina

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• Professionals / Other groups > Courtiers / Courtesans
• Writers > Poets

Granada; 12th century

Review: Fue una poeta de extracción popular y gran talento que se movió en el ambiente bohemio donde se desarrolló el zejel, una de las más singulares aportaciones de la lírica andalusí y de amplia influencia en el romance hispánico y en la literatura árab

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)

The Escala; 11-09-1869 — 27-01-1966

Review: Caterina Albert was a novelist, storyteller, playwright and poet. In her work, she continues the Catalan literary tradition written by women, although like many other European female writers at the time, she hid behind the male pen- name "Víctor Ca

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Writers > in > Catalan

L’Escala; 11-09-1869 — 27-01-1966

Review: Caterina Albert va ser novel·lista, narradora, autora teatral, poeta i col·laboradora literària en la revista modernista Joventut (1900-1906). Amb la seva obra continua la tradició literària catalana escrita per una dona, encara que, com altres esc

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• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > Poets
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers

Madrid; 29-07-1957 — 24-05-2022

Review: Ouka Leele fue premio Nacional de Fotografía 2005 y una de los protagonistas principales de la Movida madrileña, a principios de la década de 1980. Se forma de manera autodidacta y destacan sus características fotografías en blanco y negro pintadas

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Writers > Story writers
• Clerical or spiritual women > Spiritualists

c. 1500 — c. 1560

Review: Valencian woman in the 16th century, married to lawyer Bartolomé Monfort. She founded the parish of l’Assumpció de la Verge, known as Col·legi de Na Monforta, in the street of Les Barques in Valencia. Sources indicate that she wrote the "Constituti

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• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > in > Catalan

c. 1500 — c. 1560

Review: Dona valenciana contextualitzada al segle XVI, casada amb un advocat. Fundà la feligresia de l’Assumpció de la Verge, coneguda com el Col·legi de Na Monforta, al carrer de les Barques de València. Les fonts apunten que aquesta autora humanista escr

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• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > Translators
• Educators > School teachers

Valencia, 1926 — Barcelona, 2011

Review: Novelista española del realismo social. Nacida en Valencia, vivió después de casada en Mallorca, donde trabajó. Pionera en tratar algunos temas en la novela, como el sexo y la homosexualidad, tuvo problemas con la censura.

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Humanistics > Archaeologists
• Humanistics > Historians

Vilnius (Lithuania), 23-01-1921 — Los Angeles (USA), 02-02-1994

Review: Marija Gimbutienė, the most outstanding Lithuanian scientist who gained worldwide recognition - created a unique field of science and discovered and described the hitherto unexplored civilization of Old Europe. Her scientific ideas substantially im

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators

Zaragoza; 1749 — 1833

Review: Josefa Amar y Borbón fue pedagoga y escritora, defensora de los derechos de la mujer en el s. XVIII. Su figura destaca por su afán de superación, en contra de la sociedad ilustrada. La igualdad de oportunidades entre hombres y mujeres se erige en u

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• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators

Zaragoza; 1749 — 1833

Review: Josefa Amar y Borbón was a pedagogue, writer and defender of women’s rights in the 18th century. Her figure is renowned because of her desire for self- improvement, against enlightened society. Equal opportunities for men and women, is one of her s

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• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists

Lowell, Massachusetts, 18-02-1878 — North Easton Massachusetts, 27-03-1969

Review: El nombre de Blanche Ames es familiar para muchos por sus variados logros como artista, investigadora botánica y activista. Su espíritu verdaderamente pionero y su actitud orientada a la acción también la llevaron a crear una serie de inventos, lo

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• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Activists > Feminists (activists)

Lowell, Massachusetts, 18-02-1878 — North Easton Massachusetts, 27-03-1969

Review: Blance Ames' name is familiar to many because of her multiple achievements as an artist, botanic researcher and activist. Her truly pioneer spirit and her action-oriented attitude made her create a series of inventions, which improved her reputatio

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Essayists

Valencia, 01-01-1944

Review: Vanguardia del feminismo filosófico y de la filosofía feminista desde el inicio de la década de los 80 del siglo pasado. Según su discípula Luisa Posada Kubissa, lo que caracteriza a Celia Amorós es “pensar el mundo en el que vive en conceptos, est

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Alabama (United States), 19-02-1866 — Birmingham (United States), 27-06-1953

Review: She invented the windscreen wiper, creating the first active safety system used in vehicles. In this way, vision and, therefore, driving was not affected. She patented her invention in 1903.  

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Alabama (Estados Unidos), 19-02-1866 — Birmingham (Estados Unidos), 27-06-1953

Review: Inventó el limpiaparabrisas, creando así el primer sistema de seguridad activa usado en los vehículos.  De esta manera la visión, y por tanto la conducción, no se veía afectada. Patentó su invento en 1903 y constituyó el primer sistema de seguridad

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• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Writers > in > Catalan

Vic, 09-03-1930 — Figueres, 23-04-1999

Review: Hereva de la tradició mediterrània grecollatina, poeta, novel·lista, hel·lenista i crítica literària, podem afirmar que els grans eixos que marquen la seva obra són el món clàssic, l’experiència autobiogràfica, les arts i el compromís ètic. Anglada

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• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Writers > in > Catalan

Vic, 09-03-1930 — Figueres, 23-04-1999

Review: She was born in the Greco-Latin Mediterranean tradition, poet, novelist, Hellenist and literary critic, we can affirm that the great axes that mark her work are the classical world, the autobiographical experience, the arts and the ethical commitme

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Cremona (Italy), c. 1535 — Palermo (Italy), 1625

Review: Sofonisba Anguissola was a successful woman from the world who lived in different countries, not only as a companion of her husbands. She stood out in painting, becoming famous at just 25 years old, and she has gone down in history for her portrait

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• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Cremona (Italia), c. 1535 — Palermo (Italia), 1625

Review: Sofonisba Anguissola fue una pintora renacentista italiana de éxito que vivió en diferentes países no sólo como acompañante de sus maridos. Destacó en la pintura haciéndose famosa con apenas 25 años y ha pasado a la historia por sus retratos y auto

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Stettin (Pomerania, Reino de Prusia), 02-05-1729 — San Petersburgo (Imperio Ruso), 17-11-1796

Review: La emperatriz Catalina II de Rusia provenía de la aristocracia prusiana y a los 15 años fue prometida, con el futuro zar Pedro III de Rusia. Su figura se elevó a emperatriz en 1762 tras la deposición de Pedro III, gobierno que ostentó durante 34 añ

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Szczecin (Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia), 02-05-1729 — Saint Petersburg (Russian Empire), 17-11-1796

Review: Empress Catherine II of Russia came from the Prussian aristocracy and at the age of 15 was betrothed to the future Tsar Peter III of Russia. She became empress in 1762 after the deposition of Peter III, a government she held for 34 uninterrupted ye

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• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek
• Writers > Poets

Trípoli; 4th century BCE — 3rd century BCE

Review: Ánite es una de las nueve Musas terrenales que Antípatro de Tesalónica reseña en su famoso epigrama, _AP IX 26_ , considerado el primer «canon» de la poesía lírica femenina en la Grecia de la Antigüedad. Sus epigramas se caracterizan por un lenguaj

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists

b. Lyme Regis — d. 09-03-1847

Review: Anning was a working-class woman, born into a poor family in a very strict, patriarchal, and very classist society. She grew up to be an important paleontologist of her generation, but unrecognized for her gender and her class. She began digging

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• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists

b. Lyme Regis — d. 09-03-1847

Review: Anning era una mujer de clase obrera, nacida en el seno de una familia pobre en una sociedad muy estricta, patriarcal y muy clasista. Ella creció hasta ser una importante paleontóloga de su generación, pero nada reconocida por su género y por su cl

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Antedón; c. 6th century BCE — c. 5th century BCE

Review: Poeta beocia del s. VI-V a. e. c., maestra de Corina y Píndaro. Está incluida en el canon femenino de poetas griegas. Hasta el s. II gozó de gran prestigio y se le dedicaron estatuas en varias ciudades de Grecia. Participó en concursos poéticos con

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• Writers > Story writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

New York, 27-02-1935

Review: Eleanor Antin was born in New York in 1935. She is considered one of the most influential artists to emerge from the feminist art movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one of the most respected conceptual artists. Besides her work in photography, she

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• Writers > Story writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Nueva York, 27-02-1935

Review: Eleanor Antin nació en Nueva York en 1935. Se le considera una de las artistas más influyentes del movimiento de arte feminista de las décadas de 1960 y 1970 y una de las artistas conceptuales más respetadas. Además de su labor fotográfica, la arti

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• Writers > Story writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Nova York, 27-02-1935

Review: Eleanor Antin va néixer a Nova York en 1935. Se la considera una de les artistes més influents del moviment d'art feminista de les dècades de 1960 i 1970 i una de les artistes conceptuals més respectades. A més de la seua labor fotogràfica, l'artis

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians

New Jersey, 07-06-1909 — Nueva York, 07-08-1974

Review: Entre sus logros, podemos destacar el test de Apgar, que aún se utiliza en la actualidad para hacer una primera valoración del estado de salud de los neonatos y detectar posibles enfermedades. Descubrió que la anestesia denominada ciclopropano, sum

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• Healthcare workers > Physicians

New Jersey, 07-06-1909 — New York, 07-08-1974

Review: Among his achievements, we can highlight the Apgar test, which is still used today to make an initial assessment of the state of health of newborns and to detect possible illnesses. He discovered that the anaesthesia called cyclopropane, administer

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• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets

Barcelona; 06-07-1889 — 17-02-1976

Review: Clementina Arderiu is one of the many female voices that appear in Catalan literature during the first half of the 20th century. She was related to Maria Antonia Salvano, a writer with whom she wrote, and Rosa Leveroni, a younger poet with whom she

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• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets

Barcelona; 06-07-1889 — 17-02-1976

Review: Clementina Arderiu és una de les moltes veus femenines que apareixen en la  literatura catalana durant la primera meitat del segle XX. Es relacionà tant amb Maria-Antònia Salvà, escriptora consolidada amb qui s’escrivia, com amb Rosa Leveroni, poet

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• Scientists > Physicists
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Writers > Translators

Napoles, 28-05-1730 — Nápoles, 17-02-1825

Review: Mariangela Ardinghelli es poco conocida, pero es un ejemplo paradigmático de mujer educada en casa y con amplios intereses en la mecánica, la astronomía y la electricidad. Utilizando la base de la Accademia Spinella de Nápoles siguió y experimentó

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• Activists > Pacifists
• Activists > Ecologists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Professionals / Other groups > Social workers
• Writers > Essayists

Ferrol, 31-1-1820 — Vigo, 4-2-1893

Review: Concepción Arenal es una figura de referencia en el pensamiento español del siglo XIX. Fue pacifista, ecologista y defensora de los derechos humanos. Dedicó una gran parte de su obra a la reforma de las prisiones, de la educación, de la esclavitud

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• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Linden-Limmer, distrito de Hannover, 14-10-1906 — Nueva York, 04-12-1975

Review: Hannah Arendt, alemana de origen judío, fue una de las teóricas políticas más importantes del siglo XX. Cabe destacar que es la primera teórica que entiende el totalitarismo con una nueva forma de poder político, así como la cobertura periodística

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Chemists

Pittsburg, Pensilvania (EE. UU), 25-07-1956

Review: La ingeniera química Frances Arnold fue limpiadora, pizzera y camarera antes de dedicarse a la ciencia y ganar el Premio Nobel de Química. Es pionera en desarrollar métodos de evolución dirigida a la creación de proteínas. Como persona destaca su h

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• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)

Barcelona; 27-03-1909 — 28-02-1992

Review: Rosa Maria Arquimbau (Barcelona, 1909-1992) és periodista, prosista i dramaturga. Figura important del periodisme femení de preguerra, destaca per una prosa afilada que destapa amb humor la doble moral conservadora i reivindica la llibertat sentime

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• Technologists > Engineers

Zaragoza, 1982

Review: En 2006, la ingeniera informática Alicia Asín (Zaragoza, 1982) fundó Libelium junto con su socio David Gascón. El producto estrella de la empresa, que nació como un spin off de la Universidad de Zaragoza, es su plataforma de hardware Waspmote, capa

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• Technologists > Engineers

Zaragoza, 1982

Review: In 2006, computer engineer Alicia Asín (Zaragoza, 1982) founded Libelium together with her partner David Gascón. The flagship product of the company, which was born as a spin-off from the University of Zaragoza, is its Waspmote hardware platform, c

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• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > in > English

Belfast (Tennessee), 1939

Review: She obtained a patent for a method of enhancing underexposed photographic negatives. This method has been used by NASA and the medical industry and earned her the title of National Inventor of the Year in 1978.

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• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > in > English

Belfast (Tennessee), 1939

Review: Obtuvo la patente de un método para mejorar negativos fotográficos subexpuestos. Este método ha sido utilizado por la NASA y la industria médica y le ha valido el título de National Inventor of the Year en 1978.

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Geneticists
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

Krefeld (Germany), 14-05-1899 — Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 17-03-1994

Review: Charlotte Auerbach is also known as the "mother of chemical mutagenesis" for her research on the effects of mustard gas used in the two world wars as a chemical weapon. Charlotte showed that this gas caused mutations in the fruit fly (Drosophila

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Geneticists
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

Krefeld (Alemania), 14-05-1899 — Edimburgo (Reino Unido), 17-03-1994

Review: Charlotte Auerbach también es conocida como la “madre de la mutagénesis química” por sus investigaciones sobre los efectos del gas mostaza utilizado en las dos guerras mundiales como arma química. Charlotte puso de manifiesto que este gas causaba

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > in > German

Txernivtsí/ Bucovina, 11-05-1901 — Düsseldorf, 03-01-1988

Review: a biografia de Rose Ausländer és mostra dels profunds sotracs que tingueren lloc a Europa i al món al llarg del segle XX, i que tingueren una especial transcendència per als jueus de tot Europa. Procedent de l’Europa de l’Est, a més, Ausländer fou

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• Writers > in > German
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Writers > Epistolographers

Txernivtsí/ Bucovina, 11-05-1901 — Düsseldorf, 03-01-1988

Review: Rose Ausländer's biography shows the profound changes that took place in Europe and the world throughout the 20th century, and which had a special significance for Jews in Europe. Coming from Eastern Europe, Ausländer witnessed the collapse of the

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• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors

Hardwick, Massachusetts (United States), 09-12-1779 — Harvard, Massachusetts (United States), 18-11-1853

Review: Sarah Tabitha Babbitt invented the first circular saw. This was used to cut the logs into planks, in a more precise way and, above all, with much less danger and effort for the sawmill staff.

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• Technologists > Inventors
• Technologists > Object designers

Hardwick, Massachusetts (Estados Unidos), 09-12-1779 — Harvard, Massachusetts (Estados Unidos), 18-11-1853

Review: Sarah Tabitha Babbitt inventó la primera sierra circular. Esta se utilizó para cortar los troncos en tablones, de una manera más precisa y sobre todo, con muchísimo menor peligro y esfuerzo para el personal de los aserraderos.

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• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > in > Polish
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists
• Writers > Story writers > Short-story writers

Lodz, 05-02-1909 — Varsovia, 17-01-1969

Review: Grazyna Bacewicz nació el 5 de febrero de 1909 en Lodz, en una familia de músicos, y murió el 17 de enero de 1969 en Varsovia. Considerada una de las más importantes autoras contemporáneas, su obra, rica y variada, está presente en el repertorio de

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• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > Bloggers
• Activists > Feminists (activists)

Málaga, 05-08-1981

Review: El trabajo de Laura nos aporta la lucha por la conciliación del trabajo y la maternidad. Dejó su trabajo de publicista para fundar el “Club de malasmadres”, un blog creado por ella cuyo objetivo es dar la visión de una maternidad real, donde las

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Writers
• Writers > in > English

Bratislava, 28-05-1933

Review: Licenciada en Ingeniería Eléctrica en la Universidad Técnica de Eslovaquia y en Ciencias de la Computación en la Universidad de Stanford (EEUU), sus estudios actuales se centran en inteligencia artificial, biosistemas y biología computacional. Su

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Writers
• Writers > in > English

Bratislava, 28-05-1933

Review: Graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Slovakia and in Computer Science at Stanford University (USA), her current studies focus on artificial intelligence, biosystems and computational biology. Her research has been ve

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• Scientists > Chemists

Seattle, Washington; 1892 — 1916

Review: Química estadounidense, primera afroamericana en graduarse en la Universidad de Hawái con un máster. Desarrolló una disolución de un extracto de aceite inyectable que fue el único tratamiento efectivo contra la lepra hasta la aparición de los antib

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• Musicians > Composers
• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Musicians > Instrumentalists

c. 1500 — Between 1540 and 1560

Review: Gracia Baptista fue una religiosa y compositora del s. XVI que vivió en Ávila. Es considerada una de las primeras compositoras de las que se conserva obra editada en España. Su obra, _Conditor almae siderunt_ , apareció publicada en 1557.

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• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Writers > Orators

Tremp, 1949

Review: La novel·lística de Barbal és nombrosa i diversa. Des de l’univers literari construït al Cicle del Pallars fins a l’exploració de la vellesa de _T àndem_, l’autora aborda temàtiques vinculades amb els conflictes, situacions o models socials. Així,

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Writers > Poets

València; c. 1640 — c. 1700

Review: Sister Laura de San José, religious name of Laura Barberà, professed in the Dominican convent of Our Lady of Bethlehem. She was a poetess. Among the different authors known in the Valencian territory during the modern period, this nun wrote one of

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Catalan

València; c. 1640 — c. 1700

Review: Sor Laura de San José, nom en religió de Laura Barberá, professà en el convent de dominiques de Nostra Senyora de Betlem. Conreadora de poesia. Aquesta religiosa és autora d’una de les poques obres escrites en llengua catalana del ventall d’autores

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Navigators
• Scientists > Biologists > Ecologists
• Scientists > Biologists > Botanists
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

La Comelle, 27-07-1740 — Saint-Aulaye, 05-08-1807

Review: Jeanne Baret o Jeanne Barret fue una famosa botánica y exploradora francesa, conocida por ser la primera mujer en dar la vuelta al mundo en los navíos Boudeuse y Étoile con la expedición de Bougainville, que tuvo lugar entre 1766 y 1769. Fue la pri

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Navigators
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries

Pontevedra, c. 1567 — Peru, c. 1612

Review: She was the first woman to become admiral in the history of Spanish navigation. She was married to the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña. Isabel and her husband embarked in an ambitious expedition to settle Solomon Islands, discovered by Medaña s

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Navigators
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries

Pontevedra, c. 1567 — Perú, c. 1612

Review: Fue la primera mujer en convertirse en almirante en la historia de la navegación española. Casada con el navegante español Álvaro de Mendaña, Isabel se embarcó junto a su marido en una ambiciosa expedición para poblar las Islas Salomón, descubierta

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• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Kaunas (Lithuania), 1962

Review: Aušra Barzdukaitė-Vaitkūnienė is a famous Lithuanian painter, writer, curator, and teacher (professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts) who constructs the layout of the landscape even in portraits. Barzdukaitė-Vaitkūnienė works in the fields of installat

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• Scientists > Physicists

Bolonia; 29-10-1711 — 20-02-1778

Review: Laura Bassi, tuvo numerosas dificultades para ejercer su profesión. Sus colegas se preocuparon de que ella no creara un precedente que animara a otras mujeres a aspirar a carreras profesionales y que pudiese llevar a mujeres jóvenes a convivir entre

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Swaterkill, New York, 1797 — Battle Creek, Michigan, 26-11-1883

Review: She was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her daughter in 1826. After going to court to get her son back, she became the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man. She is well kno

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves
• Writers > in > English

Swaterkill, Nueva York, 1797 — Battle Creek, Michigan, 26-11-1883

Review: Fue una abolicionista y activista por los derechos de la mujer. Truth nació bajo la esclavitud, pero escapó con su hija en 1826. Después de recurrir a los tribunales para recuperar a su hijo, se convirtió en la primera mujer negra en ganar un juici

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Swaterkill, Nova York, 1797 — Battle Creek, Michigan, 26-11-1883

Review: Va ser una abolicionista i activista pels drets de la dona. Truth va nàixer en l’esclavitud, però va escapar amb la seua filla en 1826. Després de recórrer als tribunals per a recuperar el seu fill, es va convertir en la primera dona negra que va g

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• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dancers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Choreographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Directors (performing arts)

Solingen, 27-07-1940 — Wuppertal, 30-06-2009

Review: Discípula directa de Kurt Joos, comenzó sus estudios de danza a los quince años (1955) en la Folkwang de Essen, escuela que este creador y leyenda de la danza dirigía. Allí se graduó en danza escénica y pedagogía de la danza y allí volvió años desp

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dressmakers / Fashion designers

Philadelphia (United States), 1847 — United States, 1913

Review: American entrepreneur and inventor. She holds fifteen different patents in the USA and two in the UK. She is known for inventions like the barrel-making machine and two improved lifeboats models, used among others on the Titanic. She also created f

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dressmakers / Fashion designers

Carolina del Norte, 1847 — Estados Unidos, 1913

Review: Empresaria emprendedora e inventora estadounidense. Posee quince patentes diferentes en los Estados Unidos y dos en Gran Bretaña. Es conocida por sus inventos, como las máquinas para fabricar barriles y dos modelos de bote salvavidas mejorados, usa

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• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Singers

Postdam, 14-05-1752 — Berlín, 11-05-1783

Review: Juliane Benda Reichardt (1752-1783), cantante y compositora, nació en el seno de una ilustre familia de músicos cercana a la corte prusiana de Federico II, el Grande. Hermana de Maria Carolina Wolf y madre de la compositora de canciones, profesora

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• Writers

Plunge (Lithuania), 31-05-1845 — Marijampole (Lithuania), 07-12-1921

Review: She was born in the XIX century and started a writing career when she was 40. In those times, it was pretty late. But she was one of the first women who started talking about women's situation in families and that those women experience violence fr

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > Catalan

València; 14-05-1925 — 15-03-2011

Review: Poeta, novel·lista, contista i articulista, Maria Beneyto inicia la seua trajectòria sota el franquisme, tot publicant en valencià i en castellà. La seua poètica evoluciona des d’un realisme que denuncia les injustícies per qüestions de llengua, gè

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• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > Catalan

València; 14-05-1925 — 15-03-2011

Review: Poetess, novelist, storyteller and columnist. Although Maria Beneyto started her career during Francoism, she published in Valencian and Spanish. Her poetry evolved from realism denouncing linguistic, genre, social class or political ideology injus

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• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Scientists > Physicists
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

El Bronx (Nueva York), 12-04-1925 — Manhattan (Nueva York), 08-12-2018

Review: Evelyn Berezin es conocida por crear el primer sistema central digitalizado de reservas de vuelo y el primer procesador de texto. Este sistema digital de escritura y de edición de texto es el precedente más antiguo de Word.

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• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists

Valladolid; between 1501 and 1504 — between 1562 and 1586

Review: Audaz vallisoletana que en el siglo XVI, en un contexto hostil a las inquietudes literarias femeninas, logra aventurarse en la creación literaria de la mano de su _Cristalian de Espa ña, _libro de caballerías. También su obra, como ella misma en ta

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• Musicians > Singers

Bagnara Calabra (Calabria), 20-09-1947 — Cardano al Campo (Varese, Lombardia), 12-05-1995

Review: Frágil, intensa e inmortal, Mia Martini es una de las cantantes italianas más queridas de todos los tiempos. Su voz, fuerte e inconfundible, y sus canciones, desde _Minuetto_ a _Almeno tu nell'universo_ , marcaron una época y aún hoy son apreciadas

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• Musicians > Singers

Bagnara Calabra, 20-09-1950

Review: Loredana Bertè debutó como bailarina a principios de los años setenta, convirtiéndose en un icono del famoso club romano _Il Piper_ de Via Tagliamento, y se dio a conocer a la crítica musical y a las discográficas. Esta mujer, transgresora de la mú