Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition. Ed. by LISA VOLLENDORF. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2001. xii+407 pp. $19.75. ISBN 0-87352-274-5.

The aim of this collection is to trace the development of Spanish feminist consciousness through a broad range of genres, topics, and time periods (p. 11). However, given the scope of this project, it was inevitable that it would come up against limitations of space and therefore coverage. As editor Lisa Vollendorf acknowledges, there is under-representation of minority-language writers. In particular, there are no Basque writers. With a publication date of 2001, and a bias towards the twentieth century, which is the longest...

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