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research, agricultural feudalism, antifeminism in disguise, divorce, advances and problems of women in other parts of the world, and female organization. She also confronts worker misogyny, reproaches many of her colleagues for not having been concerned about equality and the education of their partners and daughters, and denounces those that do not fight for suffrage. "Modern women," she writes, "aspire to share in the law, not to impose themselves, as the enemies of feminism capriciously maintain: we do not want pity but justice."
156:, where she lived most of her life. She probably married very young, to José Martínez Dols. Upon his death, the investigation into her life indicated that she lived in an unidentified convent and may even have been a nun for a time after becoming a widow. In her writings she recalls her "conventual life" and demonstrates the handling of religious texts with solvency, however precise data have not been located. No details are known of how the change in her life occurred when, in the 1910s, she met her companion
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Knowledge of the biographical aspects of Maria
Cambrils is recent. Her only known photograph was published for the first time in 2004 by Elvira Cambrils. According to the journalist Rosa Solbes, in some environments it was even thought that María Cambrils was the pseudonym of a man until testimonies
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feminism, and one of the first works published in
Castilian on the intimate relationship between both concepts. It deals with a class of feminism involved with the era of Spain in the first third of the 20th century. It was a modest edition, paid for by Cambrils herself, dedicated to Pablo Iglesias,
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In her texts, she defends the indispensable link between socialism and feminism and questions the role of the church as an institution that, she believes, retains nothing of the compassionate spirit of the defender of the weakest. She discusses women's suffrage, teaching, motherhood, paternity
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María
Cambrils represented a key turning point in the formulation of egalitarian and feminist approaches within the socialism of the first third of the 20th century in Spain, according to researchers from the University of Valencia, who in 2015 released the book
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Often her texts revolved around the situation of women and what she viewed as the need for feminist action, also within her party, whose militants she often reproached for not being active enough for the liberation of their comrades.
122:(1878 – 22 December 1939) was a Spanish writer and feminist. She was self-taught and became part of the working class intellectual elite as a writer and lecturer. She published numerous articles in the workers' press, especially
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and other socialists of Pego on 11 April 1940. María
Cambrils, attended by her nieces during an illness while Alarcón was in jail, died on 22 December 1939. She was buried in a grave without a name or a tombstone.
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Valencia that opened her eyes to the doctrine of "proletarian redemption" and the role women should play in it.
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whom she referred to as "venerable teacher", and whose proceeds went to the press of
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journalist Leonardo Herández and Juan Bautista Pons, assault guard during the
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administration board from 1933 to 1939. At the end of the
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393:At the beginning of the
590:"Alarcón Herrero, José"
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323:In April 2015, the
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