A advantage of the opportunity given me today the International Day of Working Women, like cooling history of a singular Granada: I want to vindicate the character of Doña Agustina González López . Do you remember the Swiss coffee, dressed as a man exposing liberating doctrines, but the city is relegated to the sect of crackpots . Was shot in Víznar with Lorca. Before falling to the star asked for mercy.
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On the same stage and the days that Federico García Lorca shot, ran the same bad luck Agustina González López, The Shoe, and the fateful mid August 1936. Days before she had been transferred, along with other dams, the women's prison uninhabitable in Bermejas Torres, a former military prison, the convent of San Gregorio Lower in Boilers, qualified as a prison.
Who was this woman who has survived in the city a grotesque reminder that neither his tragic end has been used to reclaim valuable memory? Remains integrated with the motto of the nickname, on the payroll and quirky characters legend of a city so lavishly to impose contempt and dislike nicknames to the point of obscuring their identity, such as Agustin, which is known by "The Shoe" by the fact that his father had a shoe shop in the Rue de Mesones. Agustina was born on April 4, 1891, in the parish of the Blessed Sacrament.
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The Granada writer Francisco Ayala, in a statement against sexism, admits he never knew the name of the calling Zapatero. Ayala has preserved the memory of a strong presence and snobbery of their hats and coats and the shadow of scandal that produced popular women to enter public places and walking alone in the city: "The Shoe" he writes, "was a flamboyant figure, probably a mad, roaming the streets a lot, entered - and alone! - in cafes and restaurants and write absurd things which was then printed and put on sale in the window of his shoe. "
" As you can understand, such behavior was intolerable. The shoe was an independent woman, independent also in terms of their economic means and social disapproval, barely restrained, had to vent through more or less bloody jokes ...". Francisco Ayala a witness in his childhood and adolescence in that city intransigent , especially for women who tried to escape from the model set, ie the submission and ignorance, remember the joy that could be humiliating to put a "baccalau.
In his time institute held in memory a small group of girls, always accompanied, attending classes and between them, remained in a room separate from their peers.
And that time has recorded a shameful episode experienced by the director of the Normal School for Teachers, a day that was about to give a lecture at the Art Centre, told a room full of men. The professor of cultural prestige, began: "Gentlemen, I will be brief."
the room erupted in a loud voice: "Superlative short!".
And this sentence cut short the dissertation, with the clamor of laughter and derision of the room. The story intentionally sexist, was also of gross sexual connotation, which extended the challenge, quickly spread throughout the city, like a tide. The desire minimizer, contempt, was part of the macho and clumsy strategy, with which annulled the will of the woman, annihilating the floor and trampling on the right. These attitudes intimidating summarized perfectly the helpless struggle and confusion of women to emerge from ignorance and achieve liberation. Within this atmosphere of emptiness and oppression must fit the laughingstock and the humiliation that was the victim Agustina González, character unusual, charismatic, escapes the mold of that Levitical Granada, static in open struggle to maintain their emancipation and their social and cultural aspirations. His attitude meant an intolerable challenge to the eyes of detractors, "cults," the troupe's most ignorant, clouded Agustina viewed as a woman with aspirations of equality and progress. There was only one reason: his mental imbalance. Very handy resource for centuries, not only for husbands, but also parents and siblings, to certain attitudes considered transgressive and often by family interests, inherited (or guardians). Were licensed to confine them for life in convents, with the concurrence of ecclesiastical authority. Strong clerical pressure, family and social could shut down forever the course of an existence.
For a woman to act with courage, to set out its ideas in public, to lead a demonstration of workers or women Albaicín the cost of living, that addressed the Guardia Civil, who wrote books with his own ideas, to travel, it was clear evidence of an imbalance, because of the terrible things that were not women.
Over the years, Agustina, aware of the prejudices he had to deal with in his teenage years, wrote: "Now the ladies study, paint, write, work out alone and is not frowned upon, I've always broken ranks, I do not deny that many of these causes have made of Christ. Is over. "
Agustina González, in 1928, began publishing a series of Booklets philosophers, secret laws. In Whole Regulation Ideology International Humanist, sought nothing less than to erase the borders, to create the universal currency, the Palace of all, to give shelter to the underprivileged of the world record on a white flag just two words: Food and Peace, to eradicate hunger in the world ... When preparing to win a seat: the altruistic spirit leads writing in a manifesto: "Humanist, socialists, trade unionists, communists, libertarians! Vote Agustina González López, submitted to Deputy to the Constituent Assembly by the forty-nine provinces of Spain and its people ...."
Since childhood reading was the field of his adventures, which spurred his curiosity. Especially in science books. His passion for astronomy led her to believe that, perhaps, in another incarnation, his destination was the astronomer. Of the seven to nine years in college was international in Santo Domingo and, at that age, the nuns found its vast possibilities for the study of astronomy.
Hence, people do not understand how, at the time of his execution in Víznar, lift your eyes to the stars begging for mercy. He called it a scandal gesture and there who made a mockery of what they believed weakness. Of course, the worst was defamation. In the book The murder of García Lorca, we read the record, "Trescastro said: 'I have been one that we brought to García Lorca's house of Rosales. It is that queers were sick and in Granada. He , for a fag, and The Shoe, by a bitch. "
NITO
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Based on a story from the Journal, 2009 GRENADA TODAY
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