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This editorial, titled “Lyceum Club Femenino,
” takes its name from the association of the
same name that emerged in the city of Madrid in the 1930s.
This cultural association aimed to promote education, culture, and the active
participation of women in the public sphere as well as in political and educational
institutions. The Lyceum was not merely an association but an entire movement,
contemporary with Las Sinsombrero and with a series of artistic collectives determined to
change the social paradigm of the time.
For this reason, this editorial does not seek solely to replicate the stylistic elements typical
of that era, but rather to understand and approach the historical and artistic moment in
which this space emerged. It was developed by Spanish women writers and painters from
1926 to 1939. Furthermore, it seeks to pay tribute to the way these women chose to occupy
space and shape their public image at a time when society expected them to be “angels
of the home.
” In the face of this imposition, they chose instead to make themselves visible
and claim their place in the public sphere.
Keywords: 1930s, Madrid, women’s emancipation, space and dependence.