Insumisas : Historia de la lucha por la igualdad en España

Described throughout human history as "submissive," "fragile", "emotionally unstable" and relegated to the "universe of feelings" by thinkers like Aristotle, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, women have been confined to the role of mother and guardian wife. Powerful queens and regents like Victoria of England, Elizabeth II, Maria Cristina, and Eugénie de Montijo were forced to make decisions while, like all other women of their time, their access to knowledge was restricted. And those more daring women had to disguise themselves as men or use male pseudonyms to have their creations acknowledged in a world that was closed to them. From Baron Pierre de Coubertin's rejection of women's participation in the Olympics, the echo of the bourgeois suffragettes in Restoration Spain, through the women of the interwar period and the Lyceum Club Femenino, to their leading role in the Generation of '27 and the Second Republic, their complex existence in the postwar era, and their frustrations during the Transition. "Insumisas" (Rebellious Women) is the story of the struggle of those who, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, rebelled against established roles and fought for access to education, suffrage, cultural creation, science, politics, and sports.