The New Woman as a category was not … at all

stable, and a multiplicity of textual forms were

deployed to articulate her complex presence in the

cultural landscape of the fin de siècle.

Hemos de culpar a la traición de la mujer moderna

de parte de los males de la despoblación. Esta mujer

moderna entregada a los deportes, al alcohol, al

tabaco, a fantasías literarias o artísticas, al juego

de naipes, a la crítica cinematográfica doméstica, a

cualquiera [sic] clase de placer, menos al raro. Hay ya legiones de mujeres emancipadas como yo.

—Más peligrosas que todos los comunistas juntos.

Atacáis a la sociedad sin violencia, gentilmente, con

perfumada frivolidad; la atacáis en su cimiento: el

hogar, la familia…. Luisa, tus teorías son disolventes,

eres una terrible libertaria.

“Anarchism”

the name given to a principle or theory of life

and conduct under which society is conceived

without government—harmony in such a society

being obtained, not by submission to law, or by

obedience to any authority, but by free agreements,

concluded between the various groups, territorial

and professional, freely constituted for the sake

of production and consumption, as also for the

satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and

aspirations of a civilized being.