Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926

Evaluación de la Escuela Moderna en la didáctica de las ideas igualitarias. ¿Una primitiva educación feminista?

“…El progreso hacia las ideas igualitarias, que posteriormente serían impartidas en la Escuela Moderna, en el caso de Meunié, implicó que cesara su admiración hacia el clero, el hombre y su justicia que realmente está al servicio de los poderosos, hacia el ejército que lo mismo defiende, y hacia todo lo conectado con la autoridad y el gobierno, como afirmó en una carta fechada el 2 de noviembre de 1899 (Archer, 1911), año en que participaría, con anterioridad, en el mes de junio, como representante de la Sociedad Progresiva Femenina, en la Conferencia Feminista Internacional celebrada en Londres (Arkinstall, 2014). Quizás por primera vez, en cualquier tipo de escrito sobre la Escuela Moderna, puede afirmarse, en base a la fuente anterior, que el origen de esta experiencia única, al margen de toda la tradición pedagógica libertaria previa y el contexto de la Barcelona de 1901, fue una feminista.…”

Transnational Feminism and Spanish Magazines at the Turn of the Century

“…In her excellent Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, Christine Arkinstall examines "free-thinking" or radical magazines often published by women-such as Amalia Domingo Soler's La Luz del Porvenir (1879-94), a spiritist weekly for women. 20 Similarly, Henriette Partzsch focuses on fashion magazines for female readers, with a special attention to La Violeta (1862-66), edited by Faustina Sáez de Melgar. Pardo Bazán's own newspaper, El Nuevo Teatro Critico, which often reported on feminist questions, has been likewise the subject of scholarly scrutiny.…”

“…Liberal ideas and market free values led to the belated 51 modernization of the country. Religious and political constraints notwithstanding, the situation of women slowly improved as a result and several institutions were founded to better women's education, including the Association for the Education of Women (1870), the School for Ladies (1878), and the Post Office and Telegraph Schools (1882) (Davies, Spanish Women's Writing, [19][20]. 25 The modernization of women's position in society was performed through magazines and periodicals too.…”

Literary Salons and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Exploring the Crónicas de Salón

“…These spheres of female networking functioned as 'subaltern counterpublics' (Fraser, 1990) or 'circuitous access routes' (Ryan, 1992) to those domains of public life from which women were formally and institutionally excluded. Further research in the field of periodical studies has focused on the development of the female press and the dissemination of women's magazines in Europe (Étienvre, 2006;Arkinstall, 2014;Burdiel, 2015). Nevertheless, a comparative study of periodicals and salons has hardly been attempted (Ezama Gil, 2014).…”