[12] Mañé was a member of the Confederation of Lay Teachers of Catalonia and promoted methods of progressive education, years before Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia established his Modern School.

[14] By 1898, Montseny had clandestinely returned to Spain and settled with Mañé in Madrid, where they established the fortnightly magazine La Revista Blanca and the daily newspaper Tierra y Libertad.

[15] In these periodicals, Mañé wrote hundreds of articles on topics such as women's emancipation and progressive education,[16] and also served as translator for contributions from Louise Michel and Antonio Labriola.

She collaborated with a number of foreign writers, such as the Galician anarchist Ricardo Mella, the Dutch socialist Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis and the Italian feminist Anna Maria Mozzoni.

[20] But after a lawsuit against Joan by Arturo Soria y Mata threatened his arrest, the family moved back to Catalonia,[21] where they took up livestock farming, while Mañé worked as a translator.

[22] Back in Barcelona, Mañé homeschooled her daughter using methods of progressive education,[23] providing her with a wide range of material and allowing her the freedom to choose her own subjects to study.

[27] When the anarchists became a leading force in the Spanish Civil War, Frederica was invited to join the Republican government of Francisco Largo Caballero and became the country's Minister of Health, against the wishes of Mañé, who held firm to anti-statism.

"[38] In the same article,[39] Mañé also insisted that the implementation of gender equality was the responsibility of women themselves, who would need to "demonstrate by their deeds that they think, are capable of conceiving ideas, of grasping principles, of striving for ends.