After Libere e Sovrane. Le donne che hanno fatto la Costituzione (Free and Sovereign. The Women Who Drafted the Constitution), a new project tells the lives of eleven women who, with their ideas and actions, contributed to building Europe. Their biographies tell the desire for a union of peace, rights, social justice and gender equality, capable of transcending national borders and short-sightedness. Women represented in this picture book were revolutionaries, lawyers, officials, trade unionists and teachers. Some of them were protagonists of great founding movements, others of a tenacious daily work.
The eleven biographies are accompanied by some pages on the contexts in which their action has generated significant changes: pacifism, women work, Erasmus program, the presence of women in the European constituent processes and in the Community institutions. A journey through the twentieth century to lead us to the richness, but also to the vulnerability of today’s Europe. An idea still under construction, which can draw great nourishment from the words and actions of these extraordinary women.