Background
When she was five years old, her father became a court physician and family moved to Madrid, where she was educated.
When she was five years old, her father became a court physician and family moved to Madrid, where she was educated.
Amar was Aragonese by birth, born in 1749 in Saragossa. She was the fifth child of Jose Amar and Ignacia Borbon, a distinguished Aragonese couple. In Madrid, she was tutored by royal preceptors and had direct access to the king"s libraries.
This allowed her to acquire self-taught education with proficiency in the sciences, as well as in classical and modern European languages and literatures.
In 1764, Amar married Joaquin Fuertes Piquer (d 1798), and they had at least one child, a son. Amar died in Saragossa in February 1833.
She challenged traditional values based on Catholic dogma, and was a proponent of applying common Enlightenment ideas of just government (following Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau) to the situation of women. Amar is one of a few enlightened women who are associated with the reign of Carlos III. In her written work, Amar combined the established traditions of the Siglo de Oro (Golden Age) writing with 18th century themes to begin defining a literary style that was later recognized as the modern essay.
Amar laid the groundwork for Enlightenment feminism, especially in her representation of feminine happiness.
She has been called the most erudite Spanish woman of her time, she was an active civil rights leader who defended the rights of women to equal education and equal participation in public life.
There, Amar was the first female member of the Aragonese Economic Society (1782), as well as a member of Ladies" Group, Madrid Economic Society (1787) and the Medical Society of Barcelona (1790).