Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter Outline
Part I. Iberian Feminism in the Age of Enlightenment
1. Situating Women in the Society of the Old Regime: The Other Spanish Enlightenment (María Victoria López-Cordón)
2. New Inflections of a Long Polemic: The Debate between the Sexes in Enlightenment Spain (Mónica Bolufer)
3. Women and "Civic Motherhood" (Elizabeth Franklin Lewis)
4. From the Traps of Love and the Yoke of Marriage to the Ideal of Friendship: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century (Catherine M. Jaffe)
5. "Feminism" in Portugal before 1800 (Vanda Anastácio)
6. The Basque Enlightenment: New Visions of Gender in the Crises of the Old Regime (Bakarne Altonaga)
Part II. The Long Nineteenth Century (1808-1920)
7. Historical Background: From Wars and Revolution to Constitutional Monarchy: Spain's Sporadic Path to Modernity, 1808-1919 (Maryellen Bieder)
8. Historical Context of Feminism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century Portugal (João Esteves)
9. A Feminist Press Gains Ground in Spain, 1822-1866 (Christine Arkinstall)
10. Women Authors in the Romantic Tradition (1841-1884) and Early Feminist Thought (1861-1893) (Maryellen Bieder)
11. Forging a Nation for the Female Sex: Equality, Natural Law, and Citizenship in Spanish Feminist Essays, 1883-1920 (Christine Arkinstall)
12. First-Wave Feminisms, 1880-1919 (Maryellen Bieder)
13. Crossing Centuries, Crossing Words, 1804-1920: Women, Basque Society, and the Struggle for the Public Sphere (Amaia Alvarez Uria, Josune Muñoz, Iratxe Retolaza)
14. Redefining the Cultural Periphery from Women's Trans-Atlantic Network: Spanish and Latin American Women of Letters in the Nineteenth Century (Pura Fernández)
Part III. The Iberian Feminist Movements Gain Strength Under Republics 1910-1939
15. Historical Context in Portugal (Deborah Madden) 16. Feminist Thought in Portugal 1900-1926 (Deborah Madden)
17. Historical Background in Spain (Roberta Johnson and Olga Castro).
18. First Wave Spanish Feminism Takes Flight in Castilian-, Catalan-, and Galician-speaking Spain (Roberta Johnson and Olga Castro)
19. Basque Feminist Trajectories in the 1930s: New Women between Change and Continuity (Miren Llona)
Part IV. The Dictatorships of António de Oliveira Salazar (1926-1974) and Francisco Franco (1939-1975)
20. Historical Overview of Portugal (João Esteves) and Spain (Roberta Johnson)
21. Portuguese Feminist Writing during the Estado Novo (Fátima Mariano)
22. Spanish Feminist Writing during the Franco Regime (1939-1975) (Roberta Johnson)
23. Galician Women under Franco: Resistance, Clandestine Politics, and Poetry as Gendered Symbolic Capital (Silvia Bermúdez)
24. The Resurgence of Feminism in Catalonia (1970-1975) (Mary Nash)
25. Basque Women who Resisted: A Feminist Rereading of the Franco Period (Jone M. Hernández García, María Ruiz Torrado, and Iratxe Retolaza)
Part V. A New Beginning: The Transition to Democracy and Iberian Second Wave Feminism (1974/1975-1994/1996)
26. Historical Overview (Ana Paula Ferreira, Silvia Bermúdez, and Asunción Bernárdez Rodal)
27. Feminisms in Post-dictatorial Portugal (1972-1996) (Ana Paula Ferreira)
28. Equality and Difference Feminisms in the Castilian and Catalan Areas of Spain (Roberta Johnson)
29. Women above All: The Autonomous Basque Feminist Movement (1973- 1994) (Nerea Aresti and Maialen Aranguren)
30. Galician Feminism in the Democratic Era (Maria do Cebreiro Rábade Villar)
Part VI. Iberian Feminisms' Diversity (1996-Present)
31. Historical Overview of Spain and Portugal (Silvia Bermúdez, Asunción Bernárdez Rodal, and Ana Paula Ferreira)
32. The Spanish Equality/Difference Debate Continues (Roberta Johnson)
33. Catalan Feminisms from 1996 to the Present (Ma. Ángeles Cabré)
34. Galician Feminisms Post-1996 (Maria do Cebreiro Rábade Villar)
35. Multifaceted Feminism: Promoting Diversity in the Twenty-First Century Basque Country (Jone M. Hernández Garcia)
36. Bodies and Feminist Politics in Basque Society (Mari Luz Esteban)
Epilogue. Some Remarks on Gender Indifference and the Eulogy from the Margins (Fina Birulés).
Notes
Contributors
Works Cited
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