Precursoras del feminismo

Long before feminism became a significant social movement, with a philosophical background, clear objectives and media recognition, ideas about the need to improve women's lives and educational and working conditions had to face their own journey through the desert. Denied by society, without excessive support among its male colleagues and reviled by many women who considered it excessively subversive, feminist thought (which was not always recognized as such) sharpened its weapons for several centuries, allied with other intellectual movements: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the abolition of slavery or socialism. From the early discourse on the talent of women by Josefa Amar y Borbón to the articles of denunciation by Virginia Bolten, going through the visionary claims of Mary Wollstonecraft, the declarations of the rights of women and of Seneca Falls, the moral force of the impromptu speeches by the African-American Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony's fight for women's suffrage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's testimony of eighty years of struggle, this book can be read as a toolbox that collects the first projects and the intellectual weapons of future feminism. But also as a journey through the sources from which a current of ideas and the struggle for emancipation drink that has flooded and transformed our present.