The Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona was the most important sports and feminist organisation in pre-war Barcelona, linked to progressive and Catalanist political proposals.[1] The club was founded on the initiative of Teresa Torrens and Enriqueta Sèculi on 14 October 1928, a few years before the other important cultural space for women in the city during the 1930s, the Lyceum Club.[2][3] The latter followed a European model and was frequented by intellectuals, while the Club Femení i d'Esports was the first exclusively female sports organisation in Spain, with an aim to being accessible to all women.[4]
 The club's basketball team on 13 July 1930 at the Barcelona Exhibition Tournament | |
| Full name | Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona |
|---|---|
| Founded | 14 October 1928 |
| Dissolved | 1939 |
In December 1928, shortly after its foundation, the Club already had five hundred members and on 1 May 1929, there were already one thousand.
See also
edit- Spanish Girl's Club – a women's football club founded in Barcelona in 1914
References
edit- ^ "Club Femení i d'Esports" [Women's and Sports Club]. www.enciclopedia.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ Mercadal, Neus Real (1998). "El Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona, plataforma d'acció cultural" [The Women's and Sports Club of Barcelona, platform for cultural action]. portalrecerca.uab.cat (in Catalan). L'Abadia de Montserrat. ISBN 978-84-7826-952-5. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ "El Club Femení i d'Esports, el primer de l'estat només de dones, és de Barcelona" [The Women's and Sports Club, the first in the state for women only, is from Barcelona]. beteve.cat (in Catalan). 15 September 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ "El Club Femení i d'Esports de Barcelona. Institut Català de les Dones. Generalitat de Catalunya" [The Women's and Sports Club of Barcelona. Catalan Women's Institute. Government of Catalonia]. dones.gencat.cat (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 8 May 2024.