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Josefa Amar y Borbón

Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833) was a Spanish feminist writer of the Enlightenment period. She was part of the first generation of European feminists.

Life

Amar was Aragonese by birth, born in 1749 in Saragossa. When she was five years old, her father became a court physician and family moved to Madrid, where she was educated. This allowed her to acquire self-taught education with proficiency in the sciences, as well as in classical and modern European languages and literatures.

Translations

Amar was well versed in Greek, Latin, French, English and Italian.

Writing

In the 1780s, she began publishing essays and treatises in three broad categories: science and medicine, study of letters and humanities, and combatting superstition. Her writing also appeared in Memorial Literario. She is known for being witty and sarcastic in her writing.

Legacy

Amar laid the groundwork for Enlightenment feminism, especially in her representation of feminine happiness. and was a proponent of applying common Enlightenment ideas of just government (following Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau) to the situation of women.

References

(1997). "Encyclopedia of the essay". Fitzroy Dearborn.
(2004). "Women Writers in the Spanish Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness". Ashgate.
(2002). "The feminist encyclopedia of Spanish Literature". Greenwood press.
(17 October 2011). "Feminist writings from ancient times to the modern world a global sourcebook and history". Greenwood.
(Fall 2003). "Casual Poverty in the Spanish Enlightenment: Josefa Amar y Borbon and the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos de País". Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment.
(2018). "Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism : a transnational biographical history".

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