2024Writers - Hildegart Rodriguez Carballeira - First Day Cover

On June 9, 1933, Spanish society woke up to the news of the murder of one of its young hopefuls, Hildegart Rodríguez, who at 18 had finished her law degree, begun her medical degree, and written a handful of books that, for her time, were considered daring and controversial even among those who defended the leftist ideas of the Republic. Hildegart had openly addressed the sexuality of women, especially the youngest; she wrote a history of prostitution, referred without shame to venereal diseases and how to avoid them, and reflected in other treatises on political thought and her own disillusionment with the theories of socialism and Marxism.