Correos has issued a stamp dedicated to the Spanish writer and journalist Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira within the framework of his collection ‘8MAllTheYear’which will have a circulation of 115,000.
Hildegart stood out for her strong defense of feminism and assumed a vanguard role in defending concepts such as sexual education, birth control, sterility and divorce. Natural daughter of Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, her mother was a firm defender of eugenics, with the aim of representing the woman of the future.
His childhood was marked by his great precocity, as he knew how to write at the age of three and at eight he was able to speak six languages. Afterwards, he studied high school at the Cardenal Cisneros Institute and finished his law studies at the Central University of Madrid at the age of 17. He was an activist of the PSOE and later of the Federal Republican Party In addition to being a Member of the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, he wrote articles in El Socialista, Renovación, Heraldo de Madrid, La Tierra, Gaceta Médica, Atlántico or La Libertad.
Among her most notable essays are ‘The Eugenic Problem: Viewpoints of a Modern Woman’, in which she argues that eugenics was the key to achieving a more just and egalitarian society; ‘The sexual rebellion of youth’, ‘Sexual education’, ‘The sexual revolution’, ‘The limitation of offspring’, ‘Sex and love’, ‘Malthusism and neo-Malthusism’, ‘Birth control’ or ‘ How venereal diseases are cured and avoided.
In fact, Hildegart is the protagonist of Paula Ortiz’s new film ‘The Red Virgin’ with Najwa Nimri, Alba Planas, Aixa Villagrán, Patrick Criado and Pepe Viyuela in the cast.
SHE DIED MURDERED BY HER MOTHER
The writer He maintained contacts and correspondence with various intellectuals, such as the British novelist HG Wells or the sexologist Havelock Ellis.as well as with Dr. Gregorio Marañón, the latter of great influence on many of her writings, as she herself acknowledged.
They are mother, Aurora, in her efforts for her daughter to be a guide for the women of the time, subjected all her movements to severe control, which produced desires for emancipation in the young woman that were not tolerated by her mother.. As a consequence of all this, on June 9, 1933, an 18-year-old Hildegart was murdered by her own mother while she was sleeping, when she understood that her daughter was moving away from the prototype with which she had been conceived, at a time when Hildegart’s figure began to stand out internationally.
In the trial for patricide, The mother admitted having killed her daughter, denying that it occurred “in a state of mental disturbance.” Aurora was sentenced to 26 years in prison and died in the Ciempozuelos Psychiatric Sanatorium in 1955. Hildegart was also buried in the civil cemetery of Madrid, where her grave bears the inscription: “Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, martyr of free thought“.
‘8MTODOELAÑO’ This Postage stamp joins those already dedicated to personalities such as Clara Campoamor, Dolors Aleu Riera, Luisa Roldán (La Roldana), Isabel Zendal, María Blanchard, Concepción Arenal, Elidà Amigó, Maruja Mallo, María de Maeztu, Almudena Grandes, Federica Montseny, Elena Fortún, Justa Freire, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ana Carmona, Carmen de Burgos, Ascensión Chirivella and María Bernaldo de Quirós, who are part of the collection ‘8MAllTheYear’.