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Selon le dermatologue américain Sean McGregor, chaque jour, nous perdons un gramme et demi de kératinocytes, ces cellules constituant 90 % de la couche| Destination Santé
It was under the male pseudonym George Eliot that Mary Anne Evans (November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880) became one of the most revered voices in literary history – a choice dictated as much by the biases of the Victorian era, in which women writers tended not to be taken seriously for anything beyond romance novels, as it was by Evans’s desire to keep the turbulence of her private life out of the public eye. Evans received little formal education after the age of sixteen, but thanks t...| The Reconstructionists
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) has been called an “addict of experience,” a tragic literary blonde, a victim of her generation and her medication. Beneath these partly true yet invariably reductionist labels, however, lies the immutable fact that she was, above all, one of the most celebrated and influential poets of the twentieth century, with a remarkable gift for moving the hearts of millions while struggling to still her own. From an early age, Plath embodied a ...| The Reconstructionists
Journalist, critic, and women’s rights pioneer Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810–July 19, 1850) is celebrated not only as the first full-time female book reviewer in America, but also as the author of the very first work of feminist literature in the United States – her 1845 book Woman in the Nineteenth Century came more than five decades before women’s right to vote and predated reconstructionist Betty Friedan’s seminal treatise The Feminine Mystique by more than a century. By the tim...| The Reconstructionists
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