The 38 essays in Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina, volume 3, reflect the major historiographical issues that inform Spanish and Latin American research about women, gender, and feminist history. Most essays concentrate on the 1840 – 1920 period and are based on extensive monographic research, although footnotes are not provided. Since the quality of the individual essays is high, the book contains many valuable historical nuggets. The text does not present a chronological history of women in the nineteenth century, nor is it structured to facilitate comparisons between the Old World and the New. Further, it offers no general conclusions that address women and modernization in Spain and or Latin America.
Part 6, addressing Spanish women’s history, is organized around four themes: how the liberal project affected women; romanticism and female literary production; women’s work; and education and the creation of female professions. Each unit...
