Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 3
7. Part I. Iberian Feminism in the Age of the Enlightenment
8. 1. Situating Women in the Society of the Old Regime: The Other Spanish Enlightenment 25
9. 2. New Inflections of a Long Polemic: The Debate between the Sexes in Enlightenment Spain 38
10. 3. Women and “Civic Motherhood” 50
11. 4. From the Traps of Love and the Yoke of Marriage to the Ideal of Friendship: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century 58
12. 5. “Feminism” in Portugal before 1800 67
13. 6. The Basque Enlightenment: New Visions of Gender in the Crisis of the Old Regime 82
14. Part II. The Long Nineteenth Century (1808–1920)
15. 7. Historical Background: From Wars and Revolution to Constitutional Monarchies; Spain’s Sporadic Path to Modernity, 1808–1919 93
16. 8. Historical Context of Feminism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century Portugal 101
17. 9. A Feminist Press Gains Ground in Spain, 1822–1866 111
18. 10. Women Authors in the Romantic Tradition (1841–1884) and Early Feminist Thought (1861–1893) 126
19. 11. Forging a Nation for the Female Sex: Equality, Natural Law, and Citizenship in Spanish Feminist Essays, 1881–1920 147
20. 12. First-Wave Feminisms, 1880–1919 158
21. 13. Crossing Centuries, Crossing Words, (1804–1920): Women, Basque Society, and the Struggle for the Public Sphere 182
22. 14. Redefining the Cultural Periphery from Women’s Transatlantic Networks: Spanish and Latin American Women of Letters in the Nineteenth Century 189
23. Part III. The Iberian Feminist Movements Gain Strength under Republics, 1910–1939
24. 15. Historical Context in Portugal 199
25. 16. Feminist Thought in Portugal, 1900–1926 204
26. 17. Historical Background in Spain 213
27. 18. First-Wave Spanish Feminism Takes Flight in Castilian-, Catalan-, and Galician-Speaking Spain 221
28. 19. Basque Feminist Trajectories in the 1930s: New Women between Change and Continuity 236
29. Part IV. The Dictatorships of António de Oliveira de Salazar (1926–1974) and Francisco Franco (1939–1975)
30. 20. Historical Overview of Portugal and Spain 243
31. 21. Portuguese Feminist Writing during the Estado Novo 256
32. 22. Spanish Feminist Writing during the Franco Regime, 1939–1975 265
33. 23. Galician Women under Franco: Resistance, Clandestine Politics, and Poetry as Gendered Symbolic Capital 274
34. 24. The Resurgence of Feminism in Catalonia, 1970–1975 280
35. 25. Basque Women Who Resisted: A Feminist Rereading of the Franco Period 287
36. 26. Historical Overview 301
37. 27. Feminisms in Postdictatorial Portugal, 1972–1996 312
38. 28. Equality and Difference Feminisms in the Castilian and Catalan Areas of Spain 317
39. 29. Women above All: The Autonomous Basque Feminist Movement, 1973–1994 328
40. 30. Galician Feminism in the Democratic Era 336
41. Part VI. Iberian Feminisms’ Diversity: 1996 to the Present
42. 31. Historical Overview 345
43. 32. The Spanish Equality/Difference Debate Continues 359
44. 33. Catalan Feminisms from 1996 to the Present 368
45. 34. Galician Feminisms Post-1996 375
46. 35. Multifaceted Feminism: Promoting Diversity in the Twenty-First- Century Basque Country 384
47. 36. Bodies and Feminist Politics in Basque Society 392
48. Epilogue. Some Remarks on Gender Indifference and the Eulogy of the Margins 399
49. Notes 409
50. Works Cited 435
51. Contributors 489
52. Index 499