Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926
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‘Christine Arkinstall has written a thorough and thoughtful book…. The book makes important contributions to the history of progressive movements and of feminism in Spain.’
» Martha Ackelsberg, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol 34:01:2015
Christine Arkinstall's historical and literary study of female freethinking intellectuals in fin-de-siecle Spain examines the contributions of three intellectuals, Amalia Domingo Soler, Angeles Lopez de Ayala, and Belen Sarraga, to the development of feminist consciousness and democracy. Les mer
By placing these women's work in the broader literary, social, and political context of the period, Arkinstall's study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the central role of women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century democracy in Spain.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781442647657
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
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‘Christine Arkinstall has written a thorough and thoughtful book…. The book makes important contributions to the history of progressive movements and of feminism in Spain.’
» Martha Ackelsberg, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol 34:01:2015
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‘This study expands both the literary and the historical scholarship of early Spanish Republicanism, freemasonry, and anarchism while making an indispensable contribution to the histories of early Spanish feminism and the Spanish press.’
» Letras Femeninas, A Journal of Women and Gender Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture – winter 2015
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‘This is a fascinating and enlightening work… Highly informative as well as comprising essential reading for the specialist, it will doubtless be of interest to the general reader of this period of European history too.’
» Rhian Davies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol 94:2017
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‘Arkinstall’s well-written book is both a meticulous historical study and an insightful literary analysis… This is an important book that fills a glaring gap in Spain’s literary history and revises the alleged absence of turn-of-the century female intellectuals from the nation’s socio-political scene.’
» Margot Versteeg, SHARP News vol 24:03:2015