In the first third of the 20th century in Spain, women were condemned to a life of not subverting patriarchal dogma and their liberty was reduced to the marble model of 'exquisite femininity'. Through the necessary aesthetic and behavioural changes, modern women managed to open new, far more egalitarian routes to understanding such phenomena as Bohemia, which, seen through the dense smoke of Egyptian cigarettes, showed a new, clean, seductively subversive face.