Del laicismo al sufragismo: marcos conceptuales y estrategias de actuación del feminismo republicano entre los siglos XIX Y XX

Abstract

In the first years of the Spanish Restoration, some republican feminists, together with other more moderate feminist groups, made use of the press to demand access for women to education (including higher education) that would enable them to work in the liberal professions. In a later period, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, lay feminist networks also demanded education and freedom of conscience for women, gained access to public platforms and promoted their social actions through the network of associations linked to free thought and republicanism. Subsequently, these lay groups would adopt clearly suffragist positions alongside other feminist organisations whose main objective around 1918 was the claim for political rights. Accordingly, the fight for the emancipation of women propagated new meanings relating to womanhood that in practice led to forms of female identity that were closer to those of men.