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| Born | Mary Josephine Nash Baldwin 1947 (age 75–76) Limerick, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish and Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, writer |
| Employer | University of Barcelona |
| Awards | Creu de Sant Jordi (1995) |
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]
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 Arenal, Journal of Women's History , 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]
Francesc Macià i Llussà was a Spanish politician from Catalonia who served as the 122nd president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and formerly an officer in the Spanish Army.
The Republican Left of Catalonia is a pro-Catalan independence, social-democratic political party in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, with a presence also in Valencia, the Balearic Islands and the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known as Catalan Countries, focusing in recent years on the creation of a Catalan Republic in Catalonia proper. Its current president is Oriol Junqueras and its secretary-general is Marta Rovira. The party is a member of the European Free Alliance.
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Inés Joyes y Blake was a Spanish translator and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. She became known in the field of letters with her translation of the novel The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson. Her edition of this work includes a text of her own, entitled "Apología de las mujeres", which constitutes one of the first feminist essays in Spain.
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Jordi Amat Fusté is a Spanish essayist, philologist, editor and cultural critic, expert in the 20th-century intellectual history of Catalonia and the rest of Spain. He writes in both the Catalan and Spanish languages.
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