Las periodistas españolas pintadas por sí mismas

Abstract

In some of their writings and speeches, five major Spanish journalists, who were also magazine contributors and editors, addressed the status of women journalists between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concepción Gimeno, Carmen de Burgos (Colombine), Isabel Oyarzábal and Carmen Eva Nelken (Magda Donato). All of them agreed on the idea that women have an innate predisposition for the practice of journalism, and that the press is a platform from which to educate other women. Their journalism is inspired by two primary patterns, the nineteenth-century chronicle, which originated in France, and the more modern interview and report approach, originating in the English-speaking world. In the practice of journalism the only limitations for women in Spain seemed to be the role of editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper and the report genre; both of which were controlled by men, while women were assigned to journalistic genres such as the chronicle and the interview, considered to be better suited to them. © 2014 CSIC.