rope of the cold war , there was still the passionate and vigilant presence of these two extraordinary female figures , Hirschmann , despite the six daughters being raised . During the time of the common life of the two couples , the male-female alliance represented an added value , which would be very interesting to deepen .
Something is captured by a glance at the years of full maturity . After the painful separation from the common commitment with Altiero , a member of the European Parliament since 1970 , Ursula founded “ Femmes pour l ’ Europe ”, stating the feminism of the Seventies in the European dimension . In EFFE magazine she denounced the “ bad conscience of the rulers [ and the ] weariness and dullness of European politics where obviously - as in all politics - women are absent ” ( Hirschmann , 1975 ). Political disappointment , along with inner torment , is evident between the lines of autobiography , interrupted when an illness prevented her from speaking and writing , without ever stopping her completely .
After the death of her husband ( 1967 ), Ada experienced a new period of political activism in the Radical Party . She was over seventy , Ursula sixty years old and they invented “ something entirely new ”; as should happen to politics , the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote in 1967 ( Arendt , 1995 ).
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