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XXV. Marion Röwekamp – Isabel de Palencia. Advocating Feminism and the Spanish Second Republic

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Isabel de Palencia. Advocating Feminism and the Spanish Second Republic in the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization
(pp. 36-57; DOI: 10.23692/iMex.25.3)

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Marion Röwekamp

Marion Röwekamp is a historian (Dr. phil. hist., University of Munich, 2008) and a lawyer. She was the owner of the Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt Chair of the DAAD at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. Before she has worked several times in the USA (2000/2001 Columbia University, New York City, 2007 Five Women College Studies and Research Center, South Hadley / MA, 2009/2010 John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard), in Mexico (Colegio de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of UNAM in Mexico City) and the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Her research is based on women’s legal history, exile studies as well as climate and law. She has published six books and various articles, the last book New Perspectives on European Women’s Legal History was published together with Sara Kimble at Routledge.

Isabel de Palencia was not only an important figure in the literary circles and in journalism of the Spanish exile but also a very significant figure for the international agenda of the young Spanish Second Republic, especially in the International Labor Organization and the League of Nations. What we can observe in Palencia’s work on the international scene is the combination of all her strengths and skills, from acting, language, and writing, to fighting for the equal rights of women and children, to taking the stance she did on the international stage: for greater social justice, against poverty, for women’s equal rights, and for peace, against fascism, and especially for democratic Spain.

Isabel de Palencia no sólo fue una figura importante en el círculo literario y en el periodismo del exilio español, sino también una figura muy importante para la agenda internacional de la joven Segunda República española, especialmente en la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y la Sociedad de Naciones. Lo que podemos observar en el trabajo de Palencia en la escena internacional es la combinación de todas sus fortalezas y habilidades, desde la actuación, el lenguaje y la escritura, pasando por la lucha por la igualdad de derechos de mujeres y niños, hasta llegar a la postura que adoptó en la escena internacional, por más justicia social, contra la pobreza, por la igualdad de derechos de las mujeres y por la paz, contra el fascismo, y especialmente por la España democrática.

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