Autobiografía, política y escritura: "Mis primeros cuarenta años" (1987), de Federica Montseny
[EN] The progressive transformation of gender roles during the twentieth century has been reflected through Spanish women’s increasing access to new spaces and new behaviors. The Spanish women who became politicians during the twenties and thirties stand out in the process, among them, Federica Mont...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/200851 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/200851 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Federica Montseny 20th century Autobiographies Writing Testimony Politics Mis primeros cuarenta años Autobiografías Escritura Testimonio Política |
| Sumario: | [EN] The progressive transformation of gender roles during the twentieth century has been reflected through Spanish women’s increasing access to new spaces and new behaviors. The Spanish women who became politicians during the twenties and thirties stand out in the process, among them, Federica Montseny (1905-1994), writer, journalist and unionist leader, who became the first woman minister in Spain (and one of the very first in Europe). In her last known autobiography, Mis primeros cuarenta años (Barcelona, 1987), completed when she was in her eighties, she recovers four decades of her life (from 1905 to 1945) and reflects on her personal evolution from her early dedication to anarchist journalism and the writing of popular novels of ideas, to her undertaking of the strictest unionist and political responsibilities. As a real work in progress, the autobiography was elaborated during her long exile in France with materials written over a half century. In it, she claims her leading role in historical events and offers her own image as a “new woman,” as a true example of anarchist militant and leader. The detailed analysis of her autobiography, of its main contents, and its most important techniques allow us to better understand her journalistic and literary production before the Spanish Civil War (always strongly led by her political commitment) and also to recover her valuable testimony of personal experience in exile. |
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