«Dgive an object to a woman and ask her to throw it away from her: he will take it hesitantly, bend his elbow slightly and then give little momentumhowever remaining as composed as possible, perhaps imagining the look of centuries of disapproval towards the rowdy, the rowdy. Now give it to a man: he will grasp it safelyhe will bend backwards to exploit the arch of his back, finally he will lean forward, pushing with the weight of his muscles, skeleton, will…”.
I had never thought about it. I found this reflection brilliant. The next example is Margaret Thatcher, the most strong-willed European leader of the last half centurythe only one to have led and won a war without direct American support.
Yet Maggie did not speak in public with her real voice. She kept it low. He knew that his voice, somewhat high-pitched and shrill in nature, would be considered unpleasant and used against her.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
You learn many things by reading Barbara Stefanelli’s book, Love harder. Iranian girls walk in front of uspublished by Solferino, the publishing house directed by another woman, Luisa Sacchi.
Barbara is not only the deputy director of the Corriere della Sera and the director of 7. She is a captain for us. He expanded our community by first creating the 27hourThen Women’s time. And now she writes this beautiful book, whose title means “Love Stronger”.
“Love harder. Iranian girls walk in front of us” by Barbara Stefanelli (Solferino).
The protagonists are Iranian women. Reading their stories is a descent into the underworld of pain and injustice. Nika knew how to throw stones. She was not afraid of the oppressors, even when their faces were masked, even when they surrounded her and her companions with motorcycles, even when they massacred her friends for a tuft of hair that was sticking out of her veil. They raped and killed her.
Reyhaneh was hanged in prison. She is in prison – cell number 4 of Evin prison: sentenced to 31 years, received 154 lashes – Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner twenty years after Shirin Ebadi. «Machismo is taught by mothers to their sons» said Ebadi. The news is that Iranian mothers are now close to their daughters.
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