Workshop leader: Pedro Garcia
Recommended language level: Intermediate/advanced Spanish learners

Bearing in mind the celebration of the International Women’s Day (8th of March), this workshop focuses on Federica Montseny Mañé (1905–1994) to examine her almost-unknown figure and legacy, despite becoming the central and southern Europe’s first female cabinet minister in 1936 in Spain. Anarchist, multilingual writer, revolutionary, prominent figure of the feminist emancipation (although she felt uncomfortable with the label ‘feminist’), as a Minister for Health and Social Services Montseny implemented avant-garde projects such as the Liberatories of prostitution, the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Law, children’s colonies and milk founds during Spanish Civil War, among many others. We will do our best to unravel the revolutionary and committed world of Federica Montseny at this workshop. (Please note that the recommended language level is intermediate/advanced, and that the activities presented at the workshop will be conducted in SPANISH)