Political Participation and Education of Women during the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship: The Women Assembly Members

Abstract

The objective of the article is to publicize the contributions of the first women who occupied a seat in the Spanish Congress, during the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. The methodology appliedhas been the educational history, carrying out a review of the existing bibliography and, fundamentally, the use of primary sources such as the minutes of the newspapers of the sessions of the National Assembly. Through the first we approach the political participation that women had during that period, and their ideas about female education. From the review of the minutes, we have analyzed the interventions of the assemblywomen, of which we have established three main nuclei that make up the issues that they considered priorities: Feminism and women’s rights, Education, teaching and values, and Charity and Protection of children and women. As a fundamental conclusion, it should be noted that the political activity of these women meant a modification of their exclusion from a terrain that had been defined in masculine, that of politics, which laid the foundations for a female mobilization for political citizenship that intensified during the second republic.