Susana reinoso
04/27/2021 1:20 PM
Clarín.com
Culture
Updated 04/27/2021 1:20 PM
It seems remote the time when the little ones were made to sleep with stories full of fantasy to encourage them happy dreams.
A slogan of the new times seems to be to inspire them in
new models
, especially if they are girls, so that as they grow up they pick up the witness of women who carry out struggles for gender equality and other postponed rights.
Of course, there
are controversial examples
in the book we are addressing
.
With this objective in mind, the
Goodnight Stories for Rebellious Girls were born
, which offers the profiles of
100 extraordinary women
, as highlighted on its cover, ranging from Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson, from the 19th century and who is attributed the profession of "patriot "To Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, wrapped in an Argentine flag and presented as" lawyer and politician. "
The book also goes through Estela de Carlotto, through Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (without identifying any, with the exception of Azucena Villaflor), the cook Narda Lepes, the poet Alfonsina Storni, the poet and singer-songwriter María Elena Walsh, the filmmakers María Luisa Bemberg and Lucrecia Martel, the singer Miss Bolivia and the colla leader Rosario Quispe.
Alfonsina Storni in "Good night stories for rebellious girls".
In addition, there are the announcer Elizabeth Vernaci, the writer Camila Sosa Villada, the comic actress Niní Marshall, the host Señorita Bimbo, the
Zapa War Spies
, ex officio "activists";
the religious and "social activist" Martha Pelloni, the astronomer Miriani Pastoriza and the nuclear chemist Sara Rietti, among others.
The book has at least
three curiosities
.
The first is that, among the 100 chosen, there are only
two educators and pedagogues
: Juana Manso and Rosario Vera Peñaloza, both from the 19th century, as if during the next two centuries education had not enlightened women worthy of integrating the list of "rebels ”With cause.
The second striking fact is that, of four policies, three are of the same ideology:
Cristina Kirchner
, Eva Perón and the young legislator Ofelia Fernández, from the Frente de Todos.
The other is Alicia Moreau de Justo.
The third surprising fact is that the list of the
hundred rebel women
does not contain the name of
any judge
, no prosecutor, no official of the Judicial Power, the third pillar of the Republic, as is known.
The judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
Carmen Argibay
, to name one?
The book is completed with the names of poets, photographers, singers, activists, engineers, aviators, businesswomen, various
feminists
(with notable absences), artists, athletes, doctors, social leaders, businesswomen, "militia", "warriors", in a mixture that goes from the 19th to the 21st century and arranged alphabetically.
Any selection is arbitrary and you can agree or disagree with what results from it.
Some absences become more visible than others
.
And some presences make a lot of noise.
When it comes to educating by entertaining, the desirable thing would be to open the fan to foster
a critical sense
.
That in a list of 100 "rebel" women there appear three
with identical ideological membership
and no adherents of other political aspects, such as Mabel Bianco or Florentina Gómez Miranda -two examples of lonely feminism when the fourth wave was not even news- may go back to the parents of young readers to
controversial schoolbooks from the 1940s
.
Gabriela Sabatini.
Another of the "extraordinary women"
In those illustrated volumes, which many still keep as memories, the smallest learned
to write Perón and Evita,
rather than their own name.
Clarín
spoke with unobjectionable sources from Grupo Planeta, which publishes this book, to find out
how difficult the selection
of names was.
With some reluctance, the spokesmen said that "it was difficult to put together the list of 100, there were twists and turns, and finally it was decided to include more contemporary women."
Adriana Fernández, Planeta editor in charge of this edition, says that “the original idea was from the Italian authors
Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
who set out to make a book with biographies of world-renowned women so that they could be read by girls before sleep".
Eva Perón, with a place in the book for "rebel girls"
The first and second volumes were published through the
crowdfunding
system
and became best sellers.
"Over time, adds the publisher, we began to publish publishers around the world."
Sales of Italian books -whose phenomenon simmered because it started in 2016- now exceed one
million copies in the world
and they are translated into 47 languages.
For now, there are three volumes of the originals from Italy.
The first two do not have thematic cut as the last one does, dedicated to migrant women, as Adriana Fernández told
Clarín
.
"This, apart from everything they have generated, such as agendas, activity books, individual biographies and now, thanks to the attention that the brand has given us, we edit by country," he stressed.
The
Peruvian, Mexican, Chilean, Uruguayan, Colombian
rebels have already been published in the Spanish language
,
and of course the Argentine selection is curious.
Planeta promises news for next year, if the pandemic does not continue to slow down editorial plans.
For the first volume, the Italian brand sent a series of requirements: women had to be
more contemporary than classic
, athletes, young people, representatives of the LGBT + collective, women with disabilities, political commitment and a lot of diversity.
-Who decided the 100 Argentines included in the book?
-A group of editors was putting together lists that entered into dialogue with the authors' work team in Italy.
The result was a final listing.
It was necessary to make a cut, surely the absences will be contemplated in the lists that we are saving for a second volume of
Rebeldes Argentinas
, which hopefully can be published - says Fernández, hoping to see the sales of this volume.
The chosen ones
Let's now go to some of the 100 chosen and examine the biographies.
Before, a paragraph of the preface that presents them: "Many of these women were already internationally recognized, but sometimes the exemplary women from whom you can learn the most are those who have been around your house, even if you don't know it yet." .
It should be noted that 74 of the 100 are not anonymous women, but known as public figures or recognized in their discipline.
One of the 100 is María Remedios del Valle, an Afro-Creole “captain” who fought in the
English Invasions
and played a leading role in the May Revolution.
She is one of the few rebels born in the 18th century.
The Ministry of Culture of the Nation has made a profuse campaign on this combatant ignored in Argentine history.
Good night stories for rebellious girls.
A collection in various countries
The biographies are accompanied by illustrations, created by various artists and cartoonists, as well as phrases from the "rebels."
Ofelia Fernández
, who at the age of 19 became
the youngest legislator in
Latin America, is portrayed almost as an Amazon, with a whip that has the colors of sexual diversity, a
green scarf
tied around her neck and this phrase:
“Yes They are going to say that young people are the future, they have to give us a place in the present ”
.
The portrait of the astronomer
Miriani Pastoriza
is accompanied by this phrase: "When the Russians sent Laika the dog into space, my schoolmates were horrified and I told them in all seriousness:
" I would have wanted to be that bitch
.
"
With an illustration by Vero Escalante, the biography of Vice President
Kirchner
reads that “she was a girl like many others: she went to school, played the trick and liked to go dancing.
Like almost all women in positions of power, she was attacked not only for her actions, but for having a lot of character, for her makeup, her voice and her clothes,
and for many other nonsense
. "
And the phrase that represents it is this:
"If they criticize me, let it be because of what I think and do, not because of what I don't dare to do, not because I am weak or stupid, because they would be underestimating me
.
"
Not a word to the legal cases that have her as a defendant.
Of all the women included in the book, she
is the only one who bears the married name
.
And in the volume it is explained that it is the decision of the former president.
Perhaps the inexplicable forgetfulness of recognized and outstanding women, not only in their work or profession, but also
because of their political diversity
, will be remedied in another volume, in order to offer
rebellious girls
a broader range of the fighters who preceded them.
For now, one of the most realistic and remarkable phrases to send the little ones to sleep is that of the “lioness” Luciana “Lucha” Aymar, a hockey player:
“You have to have a lot of passion to keep going, because the ship sails, but you have to row for things to happen ”
.
Look also
Soledad Quereilhac and the book in which she thanks Beatriz Sarlo
Ezequiel Adamovsky: "Peronism is the son of anti-Peronism"