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From the eternal feminine to the new woman, this exhibition surveys more than half a century of images featuring women in a period? from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s? when their representation in art underwent a paradigm shift as a reflection of the social situation of the time. The exclusively male and misogynist viewpoint came up against women?s questioning of their own identity. Women went from being passive, sexualised subjects to champions of emancipation and freedom.0The perverse fin-de-siècle femmes fatales, icons of a destructive sexuality, gave way to modern women whose perversity lay in their opposition to the established order and their demands for a space of their own, which rocked the foundations of a historically patriarchal society in the throes of a transforming revolution.00Exhibition: Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, Malaga, Spain (30.03-08.09.2019).