La Buena Nueva de la mujer profeta: identidad y cultura política en las fourieristas Mª Josefa Zapata y Margarita Pérez de Celis

Abstract

This article describes how the Fourierists Josefa Zapata and Margarita Perez de Celis constructed a liberating identity for women through their writings in their own newspapers. Followers of the theories of the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier, they used a prophetic form of discourse to announce the advent of a new era for mankind, in which women would be redeemed. Advocates of a humanitarian Christianity which sought to correct fundamental social inequalities, they were, however, subject to censorship which was always on the alert for the threat of subversion that their discourse entailed.