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  Gender in Science and Technology

  No. 5 (2006)

  The works that make up this monograph are situated in each of the research areas mentioned: the concealment of women’s authorship in science and the various ways in which this has been perpetrated, the critical study of science and technology, and epistemological analysis. These works originate from the Symposium of the same name held at the Ibero-American Congress of Philosophy of Science and Technology, which took place at the University of La Laguna in September 2005. Additional contributions by specialists who did not participate in that Symposium have also been included. The decision to compile these materials as a monograph stems from the aim of offering an overview of studies on science, technology, and gender in the Spanish-speaking academic sphere.

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  Feminist Thought, Intellectual Creation, and Struggles for Women’s Visibility

  No. 4 (2005)

  This monograph analyzes the work of Simone de Beauvoir, highlighting the relationship between her theoretical texts and her fiction as strategies to construct an autonomous female subject and challenge patriarchal stereotypes. It examines feminist critique of the philosophical canon, showing how women thinkers have been systematically marginalized and advocating for their necessary inclusion. It also recovers previously overlooked female figures in science, such as Nettie Maria Stevens and Kathleen Lonsdale, emphasizing their decisive contributions and the injustices in the recognition of their discoveries. The feminist and anarchist ideas of Emma Goldman, as well as her advocacy for women’s freedom and emancipation, are also analyzed. Additionally, topics such as motherhood, women’s education, and the cultural construction of gender in different historical contexts are addressed.

       
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  Science, Memory, Literature, and Gender-Based Violence: Interdisciplinary Feminist Contributions

  No. 3 (2004)

  This monograph proposes a conception of science centered on laboratory practices, emphasizing that scientific knowledge is socially constructed and shaped by values, beliefs, and cultural contexts. It analyzes the figure of Mary Fairfax Somerville, highlighting her scientific writing as a space where objectivity, rhetoric, and gender intersect, and recognizing her central role in 19th-century science. It focuses on the poetry of Gloria Gervitz, studying memory and the formation of the female lyrical subject as a plural construction of voices and identities. It also includes an empirical study of women who are victims of intimate partner violence, analyzing the psychological impact of abuse and the influence of sociodemographic factors such as self-esteem, insecurity, and type of abuse experienced.

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  Women, Art, and Literature: Memory, Subversion, and the Limits of Expression

  No. 2 (2003)

  This monograph analyzes the historical exclusion of women philosophers and proposes the notion of a “hidden tradition” to consider a female intellectual heritage that is non-institutionalized yet significant. Drawing on the figure of the Thracian girl, it reflects on the exile of thought and the double estrangement experienced by women in philosophy. It examines the affinities between the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and the work of Surrealist women painters, highlighting their strategies of subversion against the sexism of official Surrealism. It shows how these artists reinterpret the domestic sphere, the body, nature, and personal experience to construct their own poetics. The monograph focuses on The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector and the tension between fact and literature. Using the concept of melancholy, it analyzes poverty, the limits of language, and the impossibility of literature separated from lived experience.

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  Feminism, Power, and Violence: Critical Perspectives from Theory and History

  No. 1 (2002)

  This monograph examines the persistence of male domination. It addresses difference as a central axis of feminism, defending ambiguity, the plurality of identities, and the need for an eccentric feminist subject in opposition to the heterosexual order. It reconstructs the evolution of the concept of rape, showing how it took centuries for the victim to be recognized as an autonomous subject. It analyzes the shift from a moral and property-based conception of rape to a notion focused on physical and psychological harm. It denounces the social normalization of violence against women, defining it as structural violence of the patriarchy. Myths such as jealousy, alcohol, or female provocation, which justify the aggressor and blame the victim, are also dismantled.