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“Modern and avant-garde: women and democracy in the Second Republic” by Mercedes Gómez Blesa

“The modernization process that Spain experienced during the Second Republic cannot be understood without the incorporation of women into the political, labor and cultural life of the time. In fact, this incorporation is one of the most revealing signs and symptoms of this modernity. In this essay we attend the interesting debate that began in the decades of the twenties and thirties about the new role that women should play in the unprecedented Spain that was being forged, a debate that questioned the traditional feminine model of the Restoration that attributed to women the role of "home angel" and secluded them in the domestic sphere. Republican intellectuals (such as Carmen de Burgos, María Lejárraga, Margarita Nelken, Clara Campoamor, María Zambrano and Federica Montseny, among others) claimed a new female identity through their essays, the modern woman, committed to society and owner of her own destiny.”

Taken from Labyrinth Editions.

See also:

http://www.ojosdepapel.com/Index.aspx?article=3428

http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extaut?codigo=340053

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Modern and avant-garde: women and democracy in the Second Republic / Mercedes Gómez Blesa. — Madrid: Labyrinth Editions, 2009. — 250 p. ; 24cm

Bibliography: p. 245-250

DL M 463040-2009 — ISBN 978-84-8483-322-2

HQ 1692 .G66 2009