The Evolution of Women's Rights in Spain: A Historical Perspective - Prof. 7470, Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones de Idioma Inglés

¡Descarga The Evolution of Women's Rights in Spain: A Historical Perspective - Prof. 7470 y más Guías, Proyectos, Investigaciones en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! The evolution of Spanish women’s rights Marina Pacheco Terrados and Laura García Rodríguez Friday, 4th December 2012 English, 1st Sociology UAB June Meyer Along of our project we show the history and the factors that permitted the evolution of the different women’s rights in Spain and as the different periods affected at this situation. Since unmemorable times the woman always was underestimated, in her rights and in her capacities. During the XIX century we cannot talk still about feminist movements. There were diverse factors that impeded it, for example the Catholic Church, a premature industrial development, and a gender hierarchy in the social live. Her figure was only that of wife and housewife, the society did not grant any other right, they looked after their families and cleaned and kept their houses in order. They looked for the recognized of this role but the society never give it. In the XX century the conception of the women about their own was changed because the society evolution and they found the evolution too. Concepcion Arenal and Emilia Pardo Bazan between others women were very significant in this period. In the beginning the women was obligated to depend on her husband for almost all their activities. The men had a figure of power front women and if the women did not order or respect they could be punish by legality. In 1931 during the II Republic of Spain the situation started to change, was approved a new constitution in which detailed new rights about the women, one of the most important was the right to vote in the same conditions that a man, the civil marriage, the right of divorce , and the abortion between others. In this case one of the most important women that brought about the obtaining this right was Victoria Kent. There were various factors that conditioned the progress of feminism in this period, that is the war of the women to get the same rights that the men. One of the principal factors that influenced in this progress was the industrialization, since this created a lot of jobs and a lot of necessity about workforce, the women was incorporated in the working world, but even with a lot of problems due the analphabetism. The women about to live all this process to pass to be a housewife to can go to the work as a normal person, woke up in their interior a new vision of the world, grew in their the interest to obtain the equality, they met in syndicates, for example “Mujeres libres”, that was one of the most representation group in the obtaining of the total integration of women in the society. In 1939 with the end of the civil war of Spain this evolution about the women started to fall down and with the uprising military of the general Franco this rights finished to disappear in it totality. During this period the Catholic Church was taken charge of educate the women to teach them another time to be Catholic and workhouse considering that the church was thinking that they were degenerate in their totality this habits. The women to find oneself directly affected with these condition and started to create their own working class movements like “Sección Femenina” and formed part of the diverse syndicates as CNT or UGT. Federica Montseny was the most representation woman in this period. With the end of the dictatorship and the death of Franco, returned the democracy and exploited the feminist movement and very quickly got that their rights turned to evolution.