Mary Nash (historian) explained

Mary Nash
Birth Name:	Mary Josephine Nash Baldwin
Birth Place:	Limerick, Ireland
Nationality:	Irish and Spanish
Occupation:	Academic, writer
Employer:	University of Barcelona
Awards:	Creu de Sant Jordi (1995)
Alma Mater:	University of Barcelona

Mary Josephine Nash Baldwin (born 1947) is an Irish historian living in Catalonia. She has specialized in the study of the history of women and feminism in Spain.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

In 1967, she graduated from the National University of Ireland, and in 1975 she obtained a licentiate in philosophy and letters at the University of Barcelona. She received her doctorate there in 1977 in the specialty of modern history, with the thesis La mujer en las organizaciones políticas de izquierdas en España, 1931-1939. In 1982, she was one of the founders of the Women's Historical Research Center at the University of Barcelona.^[3]

In 1984, she won the Emilia Pardo Bazán prize for her work Presencia y protagonismo. Aspectos de la historia de las mujeres. In 1995, the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded her the Creu de Sant Jordi.^[4] In 2008 she received the President Macià Working Medal.^[5] In 2010 she became a Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Granada.^[6]

She is one of the directors of , has collaborated with UNESCO, and was president of the Spanish Association for Women's History Research (AEIHM) from 1991 to 1997.^[7]

She is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona.^[1]

Books

• Mujer y movimiento obrero en España. Barcelona: Fontamara, 1981.
• Experiencias desiguales: conflictos sociales y respuestas colectivas: siglo XIX. Susanna Tavera, Mary Nash. Madrid: Síntesis, 1994.
• Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War. Denver: Arden Press, 1995.^{[8] [9]}
• Rojas: las mujeres republicanas en la Guerra Civil española. Madrid: Taurus, 1999 (Spanish version of Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War (1995); translated by Irene Cifuentes,^[10] as the basis of her doctoral thesis.^[11]
• Mujeres en el Mundo. Historia, retos y movimientos. Madrid: Alianza, 2004.^{[12] [13]}
• Inmigrantes en nuestro espejo: inmigración y discurso periodístico en la prensa española. Barcelona: Icaria/Antrzyt, 2005.
• Dones en transició: de la resistència política a la legitimitat feminista: les dones en la Barcelona de la Transició. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2007.
• Trabajadoras: un siglo de trabajo femenino en Cataluña [1900-2000]. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010.

External links

• List of works at the University of Barcelona

Notes and References

1. News: Las mujeres de la Guerra . The Women of the War . Ezequiel . Moltó . . Spanish . 11 November 2003 . 28 August 2018.
2. De la Historia de la Historia de España...y de los historiadores . About the History of the History of Spain...and About the Historians . Ignacio . Olábarri Gortázar . Memoria y Civilización . 1139-0107 . 16 . 286 . Spanish . 2013 . 28 August 2018 . ProQuest.
3. Book: Jita Allan, Tuzyline . Women's Studies Quarterly: Teaching African Literatures in a Global Literary Economy . . 9781558611696 . 280 . 1997 . 28 August 2018 . Google Books.
4. Book: Arenal: revista de historia de las mujeres, Volumes 3-4 . . 348 . Spanish . 1996 . 28 August 2018 . Google Books.
5. Web site: El president Montilla lliurarà demà les Medalles i Plaques al treball President Macià en reconeixement als mèrits laborals a 22 persones i 7 empreses . President Montilla Will Give President Macià Working Medals and Plaques in Recognition of Good Deeds to 22 People and 7 Companies Tomorrow . . Catalan . 27 November 2008 . 28 August 2018.
6. Web site: Doctores Honoris Causa investidos por la UGR . . Spanish . 28 August 2018.
7. Web site: Homenaje a Mary Nash . Tribute to Mary Nash . Spanish Association for the Women's History Research . Spanish . 28 August 2018.
8. Reviewed Work: Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War by Mary Nash . Pamela . Radcliff . Pamela Radcliff . International Labor and Working-Class History . 52 . 190–193 . Fall 1997 . 10.1017/S0147547900007158 . 27672427. 144770892 .
9. Web site: Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est La Meme Chose . What Goes Around Comes Around . Sharon . Halevi . H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews . March 1998 . 28 August 2018.
10. Reviewed Work: Rojas: las mujeres republicanas en la Guerra Civil by Mary Nash, Irene Cifuentes . Pilar . Rodríguez . Letras Femeninas . 26 . 1/2 . 223–225 . Spring–Fall 2000 . 23021102.
11. [Feminismos del siglo XXI] Mary Nash ]. Nash . Mary . Benach Rovira . Núria . Lectora: Revista de Dones I Textualitat . 1136-5781 . 12 . 101–106 . Spanish . 2006 . 28 August 2018.
12. Mujeres en el mundo. Historia, retos y movimientos, Mary Nash . Benach Rovira . Núria . Tello . Rosa . Lectora: Revista de Dones I Textualitat . 1136-5781 . 11 . 283–289 . Spanish . 2004 . 28 August 2018.
13. Reseña de 'Mujeres en el Mundo. Historia, retos y movimientos' de Mary Nash . José Guillermo . García Chourio . Procesos Históricos . 1690-4818 . 14 . Spanish . July–December 2008 . 28 August 2018.