Flora Tristán: Legacy of the fight for women's and working class rights (+seeding)

On November 14, 1844, Flora Tristan, a French writer who fought for the rights of women and the working class, died in Bordeaux.

He was born on April 7, 1803 in Paris, France. Tristan was the starting point for the fight for women's rights in the 20th century.

Although she had a happy childhood, the years to come, after the death of her father, would not be, because she went from being a girl who had everything to being a pariah, a person who had no civil or religious rights. For this reason, Flora Tristán suffered in her own skin the legal and social prejudices of being a woman, illegitimate daughter and separated wife, in a France where divorce was totally illegal. That's why Tristan dedicated a good part of her life to the fight for women's rights; rights she never enjoyed.

After separating from her husband, Flora, she was unable to get rid of her husband who, in his obsession, even led to an assassination attempt. So this Pariah left France and sought a better life in Peru, where she had family who could help her. However, once again, disappointment took hold of Flora, who only got a monthly pension from her uncle, and everything that this helpless woman suffered in American lands was reflected in her work Pilgrimages of an Outcast.

Flora went to London where she lived the horrible existence of the working class, an experience that she captured in Walks in London. After her painful stay in English lands, she returned to France where she was shot in the street, fortunately, it only left her badly injured. Those years of suffering and pilgrimage around the world matured in Flora and made her one of the most active fighters in the socialist party.

His work La Unión Obrera, published in 1840, emphasized the need to work for workers' rights. Six years after her death, her most outstanding work, Emancipation of Women, was published, in which she called for women the same access to education as men and a more equal situation within marriage.

Tristan died at the age of 41 in Bordeaux, leaving an important legacy that is still in force.

Mazo News Team