An exhibition in Toledo is devoted to men who supported women in their fight for their rights. The exhibition in the parliamentary group building of the Parliament of Castile-La Mancha is open daily from 9am to 7pm until 20 November 2026. More than 50 panels combine portraits and short biographies of women and their male contemporaries who championed equality.
The exhibition is entitled „Los hombres que amaban a las mujeres“ in Spanish, or „The Men Who Loved Women“ in English. It is organised by the Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities of Castile-La Mancha. The exhibition is on show in the former monastery of San Gil, which houses the parliamentary group building.
Curator Oliva Blanco told the newspaper elDiario.es that the idea came to her while reading the „Millennium“ crime trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson . The exhibition title alludes to the Spanish title of the first book. The curator arranged the biographies chronologically, from the debate over women’s status in the late Middle Ages to the present day.
The Spanish figures featured include the writer and cleric Benito Feijoo, as well as the politician Clara Campoamor and her ally Manuel Cordero. Among other things, the exhibition recalls their collaboration in Parliament on women’s suffrage during the Second Republic. At the time, Campoamor championed women’s political equality.
The exhibition also looks beyond Spain. The 20th-century figures mentioned include the French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and Mexican chemist Luis Ernesto Miramontes. Alongside male support, the panels aim to make visible the women who themselves drove progress in securing their rights.
Parliamentary president Pablo Bellido attended the opening on 9 November. According to the news agency Europa Press, he stressed that women had played the leading role in the fight for their rights, while also receiving support from individual men.
After its showing in Toledo, the exhibition is also due to be displayed in other provincial capitals of Castile-La Mancha. Dates for the other venues were not yet known.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).