[Feminisms of the XXIst Century]

Abstract

Mary Nash goes through her research from its beginning until the incorporation in it of a multicultural perspective. She started working on Women’s History in the context of the Civil War and the Second Republic in Spain, in order to visualize women’s action and reconstruct the historical memory. In the 1970’s this point of view did not yet enjoy any academic –let alone social– recognition. Later on, between the 1980’s and 1990’s , Nash got involved in studies on cultural and gender diversity, and worked on the impact of the wave of immigrants in the Western world. These new perspectives opened her up to the debate on women’s rights, which brought her to criticize the monopolization of the western view on these issues. She puts forward the necessity to define women’s rights respecting the social context of each culture, but she accepts the existence of some limits which cannot be transgressed.