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Johnson, Roberta, y Maite Zubiaurre, eds. Antología del pensamiento feminista español (1726-2011). Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2012. 714 pp.
Feminist thought in Spain is a uniquely engaging area of Spanish literary and philosophical history primarily due to the controversial attitude among Spanish women writers toward the term feminism. As the editors of this monumental study point out: "[n]o todas las escritoras españolas que incluimos aceptarían la etiqueta de 'feminista', la cual para muchas tiene connotaciones negativas" (13). By confronting head on the complex and at times contentious development of feminist thought in Spain, this anthology makes an innovative and valuable contribution to the field. The editors also point out that this is the first volume of feminist thought dedicated solely to the study of the philosophical and sociological development of womens condition in Spain. Other major anthologies important to the study of Spanish feminism have included Western European and North American writers.
The entries in this anthology are all essays focused on the historical and social conditions of women, which the editors agree present a more direct approach to Spanish feminism than literary excerpts or theory. Given these limitations, the authors do not include such important luminaries of feminist literary thought such as Carme Riera and her essay from 1982 "Literatura femenina: ¿Un lenguaje prestado?" or Laura Freixas's Literatura y mujeres (2000). Nevertheless, Lucía Etxebarria's La Eva futura and En brazos de la mujer fetiche are cited in a special appendix at the end of the anthology that lists works by feminist thinkers who do not have whole essays included in...