Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

"This book is a beautiful tribute to Maryellen Bieder, an important and significant scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish narrative by women. The essays in this book—by scholars and writers of several different generations who are also highly esteemed in the same and other areas—expand and continue Bieder’s research to new horizons. Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change is a very important contribution to the field: it continues current research, embarks on new areas of investigation, and employs distinct or innovative theoretical ideas."

~Sandra J. Schumm, author of Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels

"An outstanding work of collaborative scholarship and unreservedly recommended for community Women's Studies sections, as well as college and university library Literary & Iberian Studies collections."

~Midwest Book Review

"Jennifer Smith continues to vindicate the validity of feminism today. There is no doubt that Maryellen Bieder would be proud of the legacy passed on to her numerous disciples and colleagues."

~Bulletin of Spanish Studies

“An outstanding contribution of cutting-edge research to students and scholars of feminist discourses, gender studies, and modern Peninsular literatures and cultures.”

~Hispania

"The volume adds to our understanding of nineteenth-century women’s agency and the lead roles played by women in conversations about modernity and national identity within the cultural, literary and political spheres. The volume also models the same kind of literary activism championed by some of the women whose work inspires its various chapters."

~Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

"The volume demonstrates the need to continue learning about the historical and cultural legacy of these women as agents of change and modernity to understand in more detail the role of Spanish women in the present moment, a moment that is challenging the anti-feminist and conservative discourse on both sides of the Atlantic as outdated."

~Revista de Literatura

"Well-written and insightful." 

~Anales Galdosianos