Entre la aguja y la plumala participación de las mujeres en la construcción de la España liberal (1808-1868)

Resumen

The needle and the pen represent the two spaces into which the life of 19th century Spanish women was divided. A century of changes, social, political and economic transformations, also wars, which will allow an evolution in the incorporation of women into public space throughout the century. In the reigns of Fernando VII and Isabel II, the transition from absolutism to liberalism will be seen, an ideology that will expand and consolidate by all political and social facets. This ideology will be contradictory in the defense of political rights and the recognition of citizenship, in the face of the backwardness and imposition of inequality against women, who will not cease to be legally or socially “minors” throughout the century. However, in this century the phases of later feminism settle, of feminisms that will emerge in all Western countries and will manage to channel their demands through social movements. As for bourgeois women, it will be they who achieve greater visibility thanks to their active participation and mobilization, finding formulas for expression and social influence, such as salons and gatherings at first, until they manage to gain a foothold in the press and in nineteenth–century literature, as well as in the arts, whose work will leave us an important mark on the female image in Spanish liberalism.