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Abstract

About three illustrious women: Rosalía de Castro, Concepción Arenal and Emilia Pardo Bazán; three illustrious men: Feijoo, Sarmiento and Vicente del Seixo; two events: the debates that took place on women’s education at the Ateneo de A Coruña in 1859 and at the Hispanic-Portuguese-American Pedagogical Congress held in Madrid in 1892, and two historical processes: women’s access to school and teachers; the author is shaping the discursive framework on the central thesis of the work: "The need to educate women was justified historically by considering their role as educating mothers." In the elaboration of the seven chapters that make up the book, professor #De Gabriel manages with fluency, rigor, relevance and even affection, the numerous and diverse sources used. Each chapter is an antidote to the fragmented, decontextualized, prescient and superficial content that abounds, and, in the face of the disrepute of knowledge, its intellectual ambition in the search for truth becomes evident.