Feminism and Freedom: Comments on the Texts of Julia Varela and Fernando Álvarez-Uría

Abstract

In this paper, I make some critical comments about the contributions of Julia Varela and Fernando Álvarez-Uría in which they emphasize the role of pioneer women in Spanish feminism and the emancipation of women. In my comments to Varela’s paper, I have added some biographical notes on a woman, Mercedes Escribano, who lived at the same time and shared many aspects with the women that she studies. My comments on Álvarez-Uría’s text are based on the differential aspects of men and women in psychological, interpersonal and social functioning; a topic which he widely studies. The consistency among these two proposals is emphasized.