This volume examines an extensive array of women’s experiences in both Spain and Latin America from the twentieth century to the present, establishing an important dialogue of women’s voices across the Atlantic. The great variety of topics, including suffrage, Catholic feminism, literature and film, dictatorships, labor movements, exile, reproductive rights, and modernity, effectively creates an encyclopedic effect of sophisticated historiography. The collection offers fertile ground for study not only of the historians’ craft but also of women’s movements and the many individuals who made history.
In fact, one of the most important contributions of the volume is the collection’s examination of the transnational nature of women’s struggles. In the twentieth century, feminists advanced their political agenda wherever they found themselves, transcending various national barriers. For instance, María Abella de Ramírez (Uruguayan), Julietta Lanteri (Italian), Alicia Moreau (English), and Belén de Sárrage (Spanish) were all influential in Argentina’s women’s movement (pp....
