After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the Middle Ages to the present.The essays of the first half examine the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and meditations, novellas and plays - and the representationor self-representation of women in...

Mujer o árbol aborda algunos de los mitos centrales de la mujer en el imaginario contemporáneo. Roberta Ann Quance analiza la presencia de estos mitos en las obras de autores como García Lorca, Hilda Doolittle, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, etc., así como en las pinturas de Ángeles Santos,?Remedios Varo y Frida Kahlo, en las fotografías de Graciela Iturbide y en la iconografía popular, especialmente latinoamericana.?Entre todos, destaca por su hondura e intensidad el mito de las Diosas mad...

In 1926, as a young man of 28 with a growing reputation as an oral poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) toyed with the idea of proving his worth in writing by bringing out a boxed set of three volumes of his verse. Because the Suites , Canciones , and the Poema del cante jondo eventually came out singly (in the case of the Suites , posthumously), readers have not always realised that they formed a single body of work -- one which, Lorca himself was surprised to note, has 'una rarisima u...