Great women explained to children, from Cleopatra to Clara Zetkin - 8 March

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights it is written: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.

For women, however, this has not always been the case.

For this reason, on the occasion of International Women's Day, the publishing houseQuelle Histoire, famous in France for the publication of historical books aimed at girls and boys, accompanies young readers on a journey to discover the social and political achievements achieved by women, with the book History of women's rights, and the biographies of great women of the past who have marked the destiny of the world: from Cleopatra to Elizabeth II, from Frida Kahlo to Maria Montessori.

With an international perspective, History of Women's Rights recounts the battles that women have faced, in Italy and around the world, to gain the same rights as men: from the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens published in 1791 in France by Olympe

, to

's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , a work considered among the most important in the history of feminism;

from the invention of the bicycle, which allowed women to move without depending on fathers or husbands, to school which also became compulsory for girls, questioning the role that had been assigned to them until then.

The story also unfolds through the stories of some women who contributed to this cause, such as

who in 1879 founded the League promoting women's interests in Milan,

in 1903 received the Nobel Prize for physics and English with the suffragette movement, who organized strong protest actions for the right to vote, obtained in 1928. In February 1945, even in Italy, women obtained the right to vote and the possibility of standing for elections: this is how

accessed in the Chamber of Deputies and years later she would be its President, becoming the first woman in the history of Italy to hold the third most important office in the State.

Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka,

is the first woman elected to lead a country, followed by

in India.

With the arrival of the 1970s, the law on abortion was approved and International Women's Rights Day was established by the United Nations, proposed in 1910 by

in Copenhagen, during the International Conference of Socialist Women.

Again to celebrate Women's Day,Quelle Histoire also focuses on the biographies of some of the female figures who have made ancient, modern and contemporary history, distinguishing themselves in different fields and obtaining recognitions, prizes and political and social responsibilities of significant importance : from

, the last ruler of Ancient Egypt, up to

the longest-lived monarch in British history, passing through the famous pedagogist

and the world-famous Mexican artist

.

All editions for Italy are edited by Erika Gualandri with the historical consultancy of Giuseppina Paola Viscardi.

The illustrations are created by a team of graphic designers and designers who follow the style created specifically for the series by Bruno Wennagel, co-founder ofQuelle Histoire together with Albin Queru.

Distributed by ALI in Italian bookstores and available on Amazon, theQuelle Histoire books, written and illustrated in a "kids" way with a unique edutainment formula.

The volumes train the little ones to analyze the various historical periodicals and the lives of the different characters, helping them to independently create historical-temporal maps useful for learning.

Stories that give life to a world inhabited by protagonists who trigger instant sympathy and empathy in children, allowing them to travel through history and stories.

The accurate reconstruction of historical events is accompanied by the narration - in words and images - of the personal stories of the characters, starting from their childhood, exploring their personality, temperament, ambitions, socio-cultural environment and the historical context in which they are grown up, thus helping the little ones to identify and become familiar with them and to assimilate the events that made them famous. 

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