Education in Dispute. The Battle for Equality in Spanish and Latin American Authors between the 19th and 20th Centuries

Abstract

Although the defense of education for women on an equal footing with men has its roots much further back in time, it was in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century that a significant number of Spanish and Latin American women authors debated at length on the need for it.
Convinced that education was one of the priority pillars for the construction of an egalitarian society, they made it a central theme in discourses of all kinds, from essays to poetry. This article focuses on some of the proposals, exposing the arguments used and establishing the most relevant similarities and differences. So, we offer a mosaic of the common front of Spanish and Latin American women authors in favor of women's education, each with their specific characteristics and in their particular cultural and political contexts.