Clara CAMPOAMOR: most important books

Let's delve into one of the personalities of the world of culture and politics most important of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Clara Campoamor. She was an outstanding woman who worked as a writer, politician and lawyer, although she has gone down in her history for her fervent defense of women's rights. She formed the Unión Republicana Femenina and she was one of the women who fought in the early twentieth century to achieve the female vote, which in Spain was achieved in 1931. In this lesson from a PROFESSOR we are going to discover you this outstanding personality in the history of the country and, therefore, we are going to talk about the most important books by Clara Campoamor, in which she defended her political position and her feminist ideas.

Index

1. Who is Clara Campoamor: short biography
2. The Forge of a Feminist, by Clara Campoamor
3. The female vow and I: my mortal sin
4. The Spanish revolution as seen by a republican

TO Clara Campoamor she is usually included within the female writers of the Generation of '98 because, like those belonging to this generation, she too was born and educated in the same historical and social context. She was born in Madrid in 1888 and died in exile in Lausanne in 1972, during her life she fought for the Republic and for the defense of the situation of women in society and in politics. Currently, she Campoamor is recognized historically for having been part of the defense of the female vote and for having created her own political group: the Radical Party. Along with her were two other great women who have also gone down in history: Victoria Klent and Margarita Nelken.

Campoamor's struggle was not only from politics, but this woman worked as much as writer, journalist and essayist. In her legacy we find a large number of texts of her authorship that reflect and talk about a much more progressive and egalitarian country. There are many books by Clara Campoamor but in this lesson we want to focus on the 3 most important of her career and for the history of the country.

In her writings we see that, although they are different, there are some themes and thoughts that are repeated in all of them. And that was her fight. Some of these topics were:

• Feminist ideal
• Liberal thinking
• Defense of the Republic
• Lay character

In the field of politics, Clara Campoamor defended the female vote and she was totally isolated of the rest of her companions. This was the origin of her book "The female vote and I: my mortal sin", which we will know better shortly. The objective of it was that the rights of women were equated with those of men and that, thus, Spanish women could be free and independent.

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One of Clara Campoamor's most important books is the volume entitled "La forja de una feminista" which, more than a book, is a compilation of 63 articles written by Campoamor and that were published in different newspapers of the time between 1920 and 1921. It is a volume that the author wrote when she was 32 years old, at which time she was working as a teacher at the Adult School in the capital.

In this compendium of articles we know the ideology of this suffragette with literary vocation. In her texts you can see her combative spirit and the goals she wants to achieve for society. In addition, she embodied the role of a woman like the one she defended: free, fighter and self-taught. What she precisely wanted is that the country in which she lived corresponds to her spirit.

In the articles in this book by Clara Campoamor we see how the author is interested in those women who are part of society, those anonymous heroines who are silenced behind the shadow of their husbands and who see how their dreams are totally limited by the oppressive society. But, in addition, he also talks about the situation of other citizens of the country, more humble and marginalized, and defends access to education for all citizens of the country.

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We continue to know the most important Clara Campoamor books to focus, now, on one of her most acclaimed and essential titles in the social and literary history of the country. "The feminine vote and I: my mortal sin" is a book that Campoamor wrote for defend universal suffrage, a text that she wrote due to the rejection that she had suffered by the leftist parliamentary groups (and even her own party). Clara remained isolated from the rest of the political parties by defending the right to vote of women, therefore, in this book she defends her position and her motivations.

This book can be considered one of the first steps that were built in the country to achieve the female vote in 1931, although it forced Campoamor to be totally isolated from politics during the Second Spanish Republic.

Throughout this text we see how a defense is made on the right to obtain the vote in a universal way, but there is also a great trace of the situation of isolation and loneliness in which she was. In fact, this loneliness accompanied him throughout her life, since Campoamor had to go into exile when the Civil War broke out. She never returned from exile.

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We finish this lesson on Clara Campoamor's books to get to know another of the great texts by this writer and politician so important in the history of Spain. "The Spanish revolution seen by a republican" was published in 1937 originally in French and, later, it was translated into Spanish, although it had very little diffusion.

She wrote this book when she had to go into exile from Spain in 1936, due to the outbreak of the Civil War. Currently, this text constitutes a very valuable historical source that relates the first months of the war from a very important point of view, since Campoamor was political and republican, therefore, she was a first-person witness of everything that happened in Spain.

It was Clara herself who asked that the book be withdrawn by the publisher because she did not want to harm the Spanish Republic. And it is that friends of his had related to him the acts that the Republicans were also committing during the war. It is a lbook loaded with intelligence and where the author has abandoned the propaganda tone that we do find in her other writings.

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