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De Ros, Xon, and Géraldine Hazbun, eds. A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 201 1. xiv + 405 pp.
In A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies, editors Xon de Ros and Geraldine Hazbun, lecturers in Spanish literature at the University of Oxford, have provided the reader with an array of critical essays having in common their focus on Spanish women's studies, but from a diversity of time periods, aspects, and perspectives. The editors affirm in their introduction that the collection presents a "a good range of models for scholarship and a sound insight into the main issues and recent critical debates in the field of women's studies, showing its possibilities within the Spanish context and opening up avenues for further research" (4). As have many other studies following up on Beth Miller's call to attention with her pioneering book Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols, 1978), this one continues in the same direction but from a contemporary point of view, serving as a reference to and representation of important studies undertaken since, a "record of the present state of research" (22).
The anthology consists of a collection of twenty-one essays divided into two sections, with the first ten articles focusing on Spanish women writers from the medieval and early modern period and the remaining eleven covering writers from the eighteenth century up to the present...