Violencia simbólica de género en "De siglo a siglo" de Pardo Bazán

his article aims to examine Emilia Pardo Bazán’s response to the colonial crisis at the end of the 19th century, through some examples taken from the articles she published in La Ilustración Artística, in Barcelona, where she collaborated writing on topics news, in particular about the colonial war that was taking place in Cuba and the Philippines and the effects on women in Galicia. In some of the articles collected in From De siglo a siglo (1901) and perhaps unaware of it, she denounces some cases of symbolic violence –according to Pierre Bourdieu’s definition– adopting a clearly contradictory attitude: she tenuously defends the powerless position of women, but underestimates openly from a racist attitude the colonized beings, blacks and Tagalogs. The theory of affect offers another instrument to explain the attitude of the Galician writer at that crucial moment.