Nuria Cruz-Cámara, associate professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, has published a new monograph on one of the leading women writers of Spain in the early twentieth century. La mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny (The Modern Woman in the Writings of Federica Montseny; Tamesis, 2015) explores the figure of the modern woman in the essays and fiction of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s.
Montseny, a popular politician and writer during her time, developed and disseminated some of the most original concepts dealing with women’s emancipation and gender theory, and this new book is the first to situate her thought as a key component within the evolution of Spanish feminism. Cruz-Cámara’s publications on the writings of Federica Montseny distinguish her as a global leader in the field of Spanish peninsular women’s writing in the first half of the twentieth century.