The (ANME) was a women's rights organisation active in

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from 1918 to 1936. It was not the first women's rights movement in Spain, but was to last longer than any of its predecessors. It was founded in

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in 1918 by Consuelo Gonzalez Ramos and Maria Espinosa de los Monteros. Its purpose was to work for women's rights, particularly

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. It had no support from the Catholic church or any political party, and relied on contributes from sympathizers, and had its meetings on the home of its presidents. In 1919, the ANME founded the

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Consejo Feminista de España together with the other smaller women's organisations: the Sociedad Progresiva Femenina and La Mujer del Porvenir in

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, and the Sociedad Concepción Arenal and Liga para el Progreso de la Mujer in

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. From 1921, it published its own paper, the ''Mundo Femenino''. In 1934, the organisation founded a political feminist party, the Acción Política Feminista Independiente, who tried unsuccessfully to join the leftist coalition. Both the party and the organisation was dissolved under the Spanish civil war.

References

* Johnson, Roberta (2003). Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel. Vanderbilt University Press. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Asociacion Nacional de Mujeres Espanolas Feminist organisations in Spain Women's rights organizations 1918 establishments in Spain 1936 disestablishments in Spain Feminism and history Voter rights and suffrage organizations Women's suffrage in Spain Organizations established in 1918 Organizations disestablished in 1936

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