Issues and arguments in twentieth century spanish feminist theory

TLDR: In the 2003 volume of Anales de la literatura espa?ola contempor?nea, whose thirtieth anniversary we are celebrating, I pointed out that feminist scholars of Spanish literature have tended to rely on French and Anglo-American theoretical models.

Abstract: In the pages of the 2003 volume of Anales de la literatura espa?ola contempor?nea, whose thirtieth anniversary we are celebrating, I pointed out that feminist scholars of Spanish literature have tended to rely on French and Anglo-American theoretical models. There I proposed that feminist critics of Spanish literature begin to look more seriously at Spanish feminist thought for the guiding ideas of their analyses of Spanish cultural phenomena.1 I want to continue the dis cussion I initiated in that brief article, which was originally a 20-minute paper delivered at the 2001 MLA meetings, and outline some of the feminist issues and arguments put forth by Spanish feminist theorists. Fortunately, we do some have several studies of individual feminist writers and some of their major works. Catherine Davies's "Feminist writers in Spain since 1900: from political strategy to personal inquiry" is a useful survey from 1900-1999 that focuses on Carmen de Burgos, Margarita Nelken, Clara Campoamor, Federica Montseny, Carmen Laforet, Carmen Mart?n Gaite, Lidia Falcon, Monstserrat Roig, Esther Tusquets, and Rosa Montero. Spanish Women Winters and the Essay: Gender, Politics, and the Self, edited by Kathleen M. Glenn and Mercedes Mazquiar?n de Rodr?quez, provides a more in depth consideration of specific women writers who "theorized" or wrote essays, although not all of them feminist or studied from a feminist perspective. The volume