Magda Donato: una pioniera del giornalismo spagnolo

Magda Donato occupies an important position within the frame of feminine journalism in the first decades of XX century, but she deserves to be rescued from an unjust oblivion. This article studies Donato’s collaboration with one of the most prestigious magazines of the time, España, founded and directed by the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.Next to the most preeminent signatures of the culture of the time, Magda Donato’s articles do not belong to an occasional collaboration; on the contrary, they constitute a column that faces the controversial themes of feminism, women’semancipation and family law. The journalist distinguishes herself by discoursive strategies which involve the reader and, at the same time, she produces a fragmentation of the point of view thanks to the use of a first person that doesn’t always express her voice and her real ideas: sometimes it represents the prejudices that Donato wants to fight. By this tecnique, the writer pushes the reader (especially women) to think independently and critically about the themes that animated the debate of that time.