Last February 29th, the University Institute of Women’s Studies (IED) presented the book ‘Olimpia de Gouges o la pasión de existir’ (Olimpia de Gouges or the passion of existing) at the residence hall Colegio Mayor Rector Peset at 19:00. The book, based on the play ‘Olimpia o la pasión de existir’ by the playwrights Margarita Borja and Diana Raznovich, is about the life and political work of the French revolutionary who wrote the book ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen’ in 1791.
The following people took part in the presentation: Isabel Morant, Ester Barberá and Carmen Senabre, as researchers in the IED; the Vice-principal for culture and equality, Antonio Ariño; and Margarita Borja, the book editor. This book includes texts by Diana Raznovich, Laura Borrás, Oliva Blanco Corujo, Dora Sales, Mª Angeles Grande Rosales, Jara Martínez Valderas and Cristina Escofet.
In the work, Olimpia de Gouges is portrayed as an imaginative, forceful woman, who paved new ways for many French women during the French revolution. The play which is based on was staged successfully in different Spanish places and festivals, as well as in Latin American countries for more than three years. Margarita Borja is poet, writer and stage director. All her works have been produced or co-produced by Las Sorámbulas. She is co-founder of Clásicas y Modernas, the association for gender equality in culture. Diana Raznovich has a long international career as playwrith. As a cartoonist, she has published three bestselling books and she has a weekly cartoon in Clarín, one of the newspapers in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Last update: 2 de march de 2012 08:49.
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