CARTAGENA THINKS: CRISTINA GUIRAO MIRÓN TRANSGRESSIVES. 'A CULTURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN'. ARQUA

The first female political activists, free thinkers, travellers and artists were – and still are – branded as rebels and eccentrics. Many of them were pathologised, imprisoned or socially excluded. The lives of these transgressors who faced the difficult task of breaking boundaries and destabilising power could represent the first chapter in a cultural history of women with their own name. Stories of lives not destined for glory or fame, but rather for the infamy that comes with the difficult task of breaking norms and confronting power.

Without a doubt, the female subject of today owes itself, more than to anyone else, to these transgressive and eccentric women. To rebellion, rather than submission and complacency. Transgression is the cultural moment of women: taking possession of public space, conquering eyes, claiming the rights of citizenship, the right to walk, the right to look, the right to have rights. The history of transgressions is the history of how one becomes the subject of the social narrative and how the conditions of possibility for achieving this are built step by step.

Cristina Guirao Mirón , philosopher, cultural critic and writer. She is a professor of Sociology at the University of Murcia. Specialist in the sociology of culture and art and in contemporary feminist thought. Director of the magazine Desde los margens. Magazine on thought, art and culture of the association for the equality of women and men in culture, Clásicas y Modernas. She collaborates with diario.es, la Verdad de Murcia and la Opinión, among others. She is the author of the essay Crónicas a contrapelo (Newcastle, 2022).

story of how one becomes the subject of the social narrative and how the conditions of possibility for achieving this are built step by step.