Bibliographical commentary and bibliography of research on gender in Spanish history, politics, public policy, sociology, anthropology and ethnography since the 1920s, published in English (1971–2002)

It may come as a surprise to the reader that only a handful of monographs on any aspect of Spanish women’s lives have been published in English since 1970. Three of these were commissioned papers for international bodies such as the EU and the UN or government reports (Alcobendas 1984 and Moltó 1996 on employment, Instituto de la Mujer 1995), rather than sparked by individuals’ interest. Two of them remaining unpublished. This was the fate of the first full monograph that we have identified, Fredericks’s (1972) The Social and Political Thought of Federica Montseny, Spanish Anarchist 1923–1937, which remains a PhD dissertation. The second monograph, a comprehensive study of feminism in twentieth-century Spain written by British historian Geraldine Scanlon (with financial support from the University of London), never came out in English yet ran to two editions in a Spanish translation (published in 1976 and 1986).