https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui A PIONEER IN FEMINISM IN SPAIN en-us 2017-11-29 22:37:16 UTC 2025-09-28 22:34:33 UTC hello@padlet.com sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211658900   Against her mother’s wishes in 1841 she entered the Faculty of Law of the Central University (now the Complutense University of Madrid), becoming the first woman in Spain to attend University, where she was forced to wear masculine attire. She also attended political and literary debates, unheard of at the time for a woman. She said "Open schools and prisions will be  closed".


]]> 2017-11-29 22:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211658900 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659034   Concepción Arenal and her husband collaborated closely on the liberal newspaper Iberia until Fernando’s death in 1859. Penniless she was forced to sell all her possessions in Armaño and moved into the house of violinist and composer Jesús de Monasterio in Potes, Cantabria, where in 1859 she founded the feminist group Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul in order to help the poor. 

]]> 2017-11-29 22:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659034 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659247    In later years she published poetry books and essays such as Cartas á los Delincuentes [Letters to delinquents] (1865), “Ode against slavery” (1866), El reo, el pueblo y el verdugo, o, La ejecución pública de la pena de muerte [Convicts, the people and the executioner, or, The execution of the death sentence] (1867). In 1868 she was named Inspector of Women's Correctional Houses and in 1871 began fourteen years of collaboration with the Madrid-based magazine The Voice of Charity. ]]> 2017-11-29 22:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659247 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659433 Two years later the Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics awarded her a prize for her work La beneficencia, la filantropía y la caridad[Beneficence, philanthropy and charity]. It was the first time the Academy gave the prize to a woman.]]> 2017-11-29 22:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659433 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659686  Her father, Ángel del Arenal, was a liberal military officer who was often imprisoned for his ideology and opposition to the regime of Ferdinand VII. He fell ill in prison and died in 1829, when Concepción was aged 8. She moved to Armaño (Cantabria) with her mother, and then to Madrid in 1834.  ]]> 2017-11-29 22:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211659686 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211660800  
In 1872 she founded the Construction Beneficiary, a society dedicated to building cheap houses for workers. She also worked with the Red Cross helping the injured of the Carlist War, working in a hospital in Miranda de Ebro, later being named Secretary General of the Red Cross between 1871 and 1872.[4] In 1877 she published Penitentiary Studies.
Concepción Arenal died the morning of 4 February 1893 in Vigo, where she was buried a day later. Her epitaph is her personal motto: To virtue, to life, to science.



]]> 2017-11-29 22:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211660800 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211661221    Concepción Arenal is one of the pioneers of feminism in Spain. Her first work about women's rights was La Mujer del Porvenir [The woman of the future] (1869) where she critics the theories defending the inferiority of women based on biological reasons. She defended women´s access to any level of education, although not to any job because she considered that women were not skilled to be an authority figure. She neither support women´s political involvement because they were at risk of suffering retaliation and neglecting their family. ]]> 2017-11-29 22:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211661221 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211661893    
Arenal's achievements were extraordinary in a largely traditional Spain, focusing her work on those marginalised in society. She wrote not only extensively on the state of prisons for both men and women, but also on the role of women in society in works such as La Mujer del Porvenir [The Woman of the Future] (1869), The education of women, The current state of women in Spain, The work of women, La mujer de su casa [The woman of the house] (1883) and Domestic service. It is this work which made her known as the founder of the feminist movement in Spain.
A statue to Concepción Arenal has been erected in Madrid, and the Library of Law, Political Sciences and Labour Relations of the University of Santiago de Compostela bears her name. Ideologically, Arenal was a reformist deeply rooted in Christian doctrine.]]> 2017-11-29 23:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211661893 sarateacher07 https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211662447 2017-11-29 23:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sarateacher07/a3o3skfrafui/wish/211662447