The Role of Women in the Origin of the Spanish Liberalism

Abstract

At the end of the 18th century was perceived some concern about the education of women, and this aperture was used by some women to reach even the Royal Academies. This situation led them to think in the possibility of being present outside the domestic space and perhaps it was also the time to conquer not only educational and labor but also political rights. However, it was not possible. Throughout the text of the Constitution of 1812 is found the mention of unable fémina, even they were called female on many occasions; meanwhile this situation shall not happen with men, which never were called males. The constituent parents, consistent with that denomination, leave the capiti disminuidas women to exercise their rights as citizens. They cannot, among other things, vote or to be voted for, or hold any representative acting in the trade. Women, as a collective conscious group, wanted to have the same rights as men because of duties always they had "enjoyed". Women as the Countess Burette, Carmen Ponce de León y Carvajal, Margarita de Morla and Virués or Frasquita Larrea are some of the names that are rescued from historical anonymity. They moved the "feminine" debates of the French salons to Spanish gatherings. The women tried to make themselves heard with ingenious ways. Thus, Sofia Rousseau beat in Cádiz and not the women portrayed by Mary Wollstonecraft.