Josefa Amar y Borbón

Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833) was a Spanish writer of the Enlightenment. Born at Saragossa, she moved to Madrid when her father became royal physician and was educated by royal preceptors, mastering Greek, Latin and Italian.

Married in 1764, she returned to Saragossa in 1772 and became the first woman admitted to the Aragonese Economic Society in 1782. In 1790 she joined the Medical Society of Barcelona.

Through essays and translations she defended women's equal capacity for learning and public office, and her Discourse on the Physical and Moral Education of Women appeared in 1790.