Women Will Come. 150 Years of Struggle in the Streets of Barcelona

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Image courtesy of Museu d'Història de Barcelona.

Women Will Come. 150 Years of Struggle in the Streets of Barcelona proposes a feminist reading of the city's recent history through the eyes of those writers, artists and activists who lived there.

From the 19th century to the present day, the tour gathers the literary, artistic and historical testimony of around 80 women from different eras who have moved from the private sphere to the public space, promoting or collecting the most decisive social, cultural and political struggles of the last century and a half through different ideological and cultural perspectives and with literature and art as central tools of emancipation, resistance and transformation

From the anarchists and workers of the late 19th century, through the feminisms of the early 20th century and the second waves of the 1970s, to contemporary movements. Known and unknown women, women who led the integration of women in the public sphere and culture; women who ensured that rights were extended—also over their bodies; women who did not want to send their children to war and who wanted to be able to feed them; women who wrote stories of women and others who bore witness to the transformations of a city in tension and, for this very reason, always changing, always monstrous. Women who claimed collective organization, secular schools, women's participation in politics, Catalan in schools and in common life; women who contributed to solidarity networks in times of crisis—that of female autonomy, that of housing, that of subsistence, but also that of war.

Documents, works and testimonies build a collective story that recovers a memory often made invisible by the dominant story, with a masculine and patriarchal bias, and draws a living city, conflicted and in constant transformation.

The story is articulated around four historical moments, with attention to the key episodes and literary protagonists of each stage: “19th Century: Building the Modern City,” “Republic, War and Exile,” “Postwar and Transition” and “Our Century.” A century and a half of a Barcelona, ​​sometimes idealized and sometimes harsh, intensely lived and represented by writers and artists who invite us to dialogue with our past and recognize demands driven by women and still valid today, such as housing, precariousness and subsistence, the right to one’s own body or political struggles.

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