Vindicación Feminista

Vindicación Feminista
Editor-in-chief
CategoriesFeminist magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founder
  • Lidia Falcón
  • Carmen Alcalde
Founded1976
First issueJuly 1976
Final issueDecember 1979
CountrySpain
Based inBarcelona
LanguageSpanish

Vindicación Feminista (Spanish: Feminist Vindication) was a monthly feminist magazine which was published in Barcelona, Spain, in the period 1976–1979. It is the first feminist magazine established in Spain during the transition from dictatorship to democracy.[1] The magazine was part of the second wave feminism.[2]

History and profile

Vindicación Feminista was founded by Lidia Falcón and Carmen Alcalde in 1976.[2] The first issue of the monthly magazine appeared in July that year.[1] Both founders also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine of which the contributors were all women journalists.[2] They were the advocates of the radical and gendered activism and adopted the view of Kate Millett: the personal is political.[1][2] The magazine was a supporter of abortion and harshly criticised and ridiculed Telva, a women's magazine which opposed the legalization of abortion.[3]

Although the magazine was the illustrative feminist publication for the transition period,[4] it ceased publication in December 1979 after producing a total of thirty issues due to financial constraints and lower levels of readership.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Teresa Ortiz; Agata Ignaciuk (18–20 November 2010). Hormonal contraception, gender and society in Spain (1966-1979) (Conference paper). Barcelona: University of Granada. pp. 895–896. hdl:10481/35095. ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8.
  2. ^ a b c d e Jenna Reynolds (2018). The Inextricable Connection of the Personal and the Political in Transition-Era Spain (MA thesis). University of Alabama. pp. 13–14. ProQuest 2056464220.
  3. ^ Uwe Kjær Nissen (2001). "Gender in Spanish: Tradition and innovation". In Marlis Hellinger; Hadumod Bußmann (eds.). Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins. p. 254. ISBN 978-90-272-1843-8.
  4. ^ Ainara Larrondo Ureta (2020). "(In)visibility of feminism in the media. The depiction of the second-wave women's movement in Spain". Feminist Media Studies. 20 (1): 73. doi:10.1080/14680777.2019.1574856. S2CID 150794133.