"To all the ladies in the house"
This is a photografic tribute to the best side of Woman's Day, a moment to pay homage and not to forget all those women who fought and fight to gain a voce, dignity, room and rights by challenging their times, environments, social conventions and the existing laws. Always with courage; often in solitude. Strength, tenacity and solid visions have allowed them to enrich the social, political and cultural life surrounding them: some through their genius, some through their creative abilities and talents, some through solidarity, some through an unwavering urge for justice and equality.
Even when their challenges had to face oscillating fortune, their example always sowed the seed of change (if it didn't cause it itself) for the generations to come: larger footprints to follow, and more motivating figures to look up to.
(complete list of photographs below)
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Tributo fotografico al lato migliore dell'8 marzo, quello intento a omaggiare e a non far dimenticare tutte quelle donne che, sempre con coraggio e spesso in solitudine, hanno lottato per conquistare una voce, una dignità, uno spazio e un diritto, sfidando i tempi, gli ambienti, le convenzioni e le leggi. Forza, tenacia e solide visioni hanno permesso loro di arricchire la vita sociale, politica e culturale, chi col proprio genio, chi con talento ed estro creativo, chi con solidarietà, chi con un'inscalfibile impellenza di giustizia e di uguaglianza.
E se la loro sfida ha incontrato alterna fortuna, il loro esempio ha sempre gettato il seme del cambiamento (se non già determinandolo) per le generazioni successive: orme più agevoli da seguire e figure sempre più elevate a cui ispirarsi.
In ordine:
Cleopatra, Giovanna d'Arco / Jeanne d'Arc, Anna Bolena / Anne Boleyn (Queen of England), Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon / The Queen Mother, Regina Rania di Giordania / Rānia al-Abd Allāh
Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva 'Evita' Perón, Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacëva, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sonia Gandhi, Emma Bonino, Benazir Bhutto, Paola Concia
Olympe de Gouges, Oriana Fallaci, Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaja, Íngrid Betancourt
Gaspara Stampa, Emily Dickinson, Bertha von Suttner, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing, Alda Merini, Isabel Allende, Alice Walker, Delia Vaccarello
Women who fell victims to the Inquisition, Lalla Fadhma n'Soumer, Anna Kuliscioff, Dolores 'La Pasionaria' Ibárruri, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Sophie Scholl, Brigitte Bardot, Neda Agha-Soltan, Le Donne In Nero, Women who were and are victims to abuse, violence, segregation, honour crimes, and (so sadly) etcetera.
Carrie Derick, Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Margherita Hack, Jane Goodall
Maria Montessori, Marva Collins
Amelia Earhart
Peggy Guggenheim, Tamara de Lempicka, Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, Mila Schön, Annie Leibovitz
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova, Carla Fracci
Ellen DeGeneres, Serena Dandini, Luciana Littizzetto, Vladimir Luxuria, Paola Maugeri, Paola Cortellesi
Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Rachel Shelley, Pam Grier, Mia Kirshner, Katherine Moennig, Jennifer Beals, Laurel Holloman, Leisha Hailey, Rose Rollins
Édith Piaf, Maria Callas, Celia Cruz, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, Raffaella Carrà, Liza Minnelli, Caterina Caselli, Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Fiorella Mannoia, Gianna Nannini, Kate Bush, Madonna, Sade, Tori Amos, Neneh Cherry, Tracy Chapman, Linda Perry, Sophie B. Hawkins, Dolores O'Riordan, Mary J. Blige, Alanis Morissette, Carmen Consoli, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys
Eleonora Duse, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Anna Magnani, Franca Valeri, Sophia Lauren, Lina Wertmüller, Audrey Hepburn, Silvana Mangano, Monica Vitti, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Romy Schneider, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Anna Marchesini, Serra Yilmaz, Whoopi Goldberg, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Beals, Marlee Matlin, Charlize Theron, Kate Winslet
2010 ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS:
Mo'Nique, Sandra Bullock, Kathryn Bigelow (first woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director)
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