Las Hermanas

In this historical study, Lara Medina examines the early development and continuing influence of Las Hermanas, a feminist organization established in 1971 to counter the patriarchy and Eurocentrism of the U.S. Catholic Church. Medina weaves archival research and oral interviews into a cohesive narrative that highlights the keen ethnic and political awareness among the movement's leaders and participants. Medina also illuminates the strides made by Las Hermanas in undermining and reorienting the male-dominated structure of both the Catholic ministry and the Chicano civil rights movement. By...

Fernando del Paso tells his work experience as a translator, radio announcer and producer of radio shows of the Latin-American service of the BBC before and after the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina for the Falkland Islands. It reflexs upon the posture taken from both countries in front of the international community for the rightful sovereignty of the islands and the censorship measures about the subject in the media.

This study is a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw material in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In Spanish.

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El pasado cambiante. Historiografía y capitalismo. Siglos xix-xx supone tanto un análisis de los diversos enfoques propuestos sobre el origen y desarrollo del capitalismo como una reflexión sobre la dinámica interna, en su contexto social, del trabajo de los historiadores. En los dos primeros capítulos, se establece un diálogo con sociólogos de la ciencia, historiadores y especialistas de otros dominios que tratan de introducirse en la lógica de las ciencias y de la historia en sus formas de enfrentarse con la realidad externa, sobre todo bajo las coordenadas que marcan la sociedad y...