Aurora G. Morcillo was Professor of History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Cultural and Social Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion (2014), The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (2010) and True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (2000). She sadly passed away in 2020.María Asunción Gómez is Professor of Spanish at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of La madre muerta: El mito matricida en la literatura y el cine españoles (2016) and Del escenario a la pantalla: La adaptación cinematográfica del teatro español (2000), and the co-editor, along with Santiago Juan-Navarro and Phyllis Zatlin, of History and Myth of the Mad Queen: Modern Representations of Juana of Castile (2008).Paula De La Cruz-Fernández is instructor in history, research historian, and digital archivist. José Manuel Morcillo-Gómez is Visiting Instructor in Spanish at the University of Qingdao, China. He is a PhD Candidate in Spanish at Florida International University, USA.

What makes this sourcebook stand out is its seamless incorporation of gender history throughout. There is much to like about this book … Its structure is flexible for classroom use, and it does meet the authors’ goals of bringing historical context to cultural studies’ students and cultural works to history students.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction 1. Literature and Art Document 1: Miguel de Cervantes, from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, 1605Document 2: María de Zayas, from Exemplary Tales of Love and Disillusion, 1637Document 3: Benito Feijóo y Montenegro, “A Defense or Vindication of Women,” 1726 from Universal Theater of Criticism. First volume. 16th Treaty. 1726- 1740) Document 4: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, etching “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” 1799Document 5: Xavier Badia-Vilatò, poster “Ambition, Militarism, War. This Is Fascism. Unite to Destroy it”, 1936Document 6: María Zambrano, from For a History of Mercy, 19892. Labor and Business History Document 1: Pedro Rodríguez Campomanes, Excerpts from “Treatise on The Education of Artisans and their Improvement”, 1775Document 2: Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Decree of Disentailment of the Regular Clergy, 1836Document 3: Chair Act 1912. Wednesday February 28, 1912Document 4: “Labor Charter,” 1938 and “Law of Political and Labor Rights of Women,” 1961Document 5: MATESA Scandal, 1969Document 6: Table of Workers Salaries by provinces, 19733. Feminisms Document 1: Josefa Amar y Borbón, “Prologue” from Discourse abut Women’s Physical and Moral Education, 1790Document 2: Concepción Arenal, from Women of the Future, 1861Document 3: Carmen de Burgos, Divorce in Spain, 1904Document 4: Consuelo Berges, “Republican Women’s Union, Pathways” fromCultura integral femenina, 1933Document 5: Lidia Falcón, The Feminist Reason, 1981 Document 6: Law against gender violence. Ley Orgánica 1/2004 4. Everyday Life & Material Culture Document 1: Singer sewing machine advertisement, ca. 1890Document 2: Cover Blanco y Negro, 1936 Document 3: Ricard Terré, photograph Holy Week, 1957Document 4: Carlos Giménez, comics from Paracuellos, 1975Document 5: Spain, cover National Geographic, 1965Document 6: Advertisement, Jabón Lagarto, 1960s5. Education Document 1: Juan Luis Vives, from The Education of the Christian Woman, 1523Document 2: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, from “Guidelines for the Creation of A Plan of Public Instruction to the Junta of this Matter,” 1809Document 3: Law of Public Instruction, Moyano Law, 1857Document 4: Constitution 1931 Articles 48-50 & Constitution 1978 Article 27Document 5: Secondary Education Law 1953Document 6: Organic Law of Education 20066. Political Power and the Law Document 1: Spanish Constitutions, 1812 and 1978 Document 2: Civil Code, 1889 and 1958Document 3: Spanish Constitution 1931Document 4: Law of Political Responsibilities 1939Document 5: Fundamental Principles of the State, 1958Document 6: Law of Historical Memory (Ley de recuperación de la memoria Histórica, 20077. Religion Document 1: Concordat, 1851 Document 2: Spanish Bishops’ from “Collective Letter”, 1937Document 3: Enrique Tarancón, from Pastoral Letter “Our daily bread,” 1951Document 4: Franco as Medieval KnightDocument 5: “The Socio-religious change in Spain” FOESSA, Estudios socisológicos sobre la situación social de España Document 6: Gay Priest magazine Zero cover (2002)8. Public Health and Welfare Document 1: Count of Cobarrus, Letter I, On Public Health, 1808 Document 2: Juan Giné Partagás, from Lessons on elementary private and public hygiene, 1871-72 Document 3: Women’s Section of Falange, Photographs of Gymnastics, 1960Document 4: Tomás Caro Patón, The Fallen Woman. Memoirs and Reflections of a Physician in the Anti Venereal Struggle, 1959Document 5: Sociology of Health Care. FOESSA, 1975 and Table on Causes of Death 1968-1970 Document 6: Organic Law for the Legalization of abortion 9/19859. Gendered Sexualities Document 1: Gregorio Marañon, The Evolution of Sexuality and the Intersexual Conditions, 1930Document 2: Hildegart Rodríguez, El problema sexual tratado por una mujer española, 1931Document 3: Dr. Ramón Serrano Vicens, Informe Sexual de la Mujer Española, 1978Document 4: Esperanza Vaello Esquerdo, The Crime of Adultery and Cohabitation, 1976 Document 5: Pedro Almodovar, movie still The Law of Desire, 1987Document 6: Gay Marriage Law, 200510. Empires across Oceans Document 1: Bartolomé de las Casas, Christopher Columbus Travels, 1566-1600Document 2: Emilio Castelar, Speech against Slavery, 1870Document 3: Manifesto of the revolutionary junta of the island of Cuba, addressed to its countrymen and to all nations, 1898Document 4: Law of Paternal Dissent in Cuba and Puerto Rico 1882Document 5: Political Cartoons from Gedeón, 1898Document 6: Gumersindo Azcárate, Speech on the Political and Economic Interests of Spain in Morocco, 1910Further Reading