Spanish Women in the 19th-Century Anti-Slavery Movement: Gender, Race and the Colonial Question

As part of the November programme of activities, the Seminari Filosofia i Gènere-ADHUC organises the seminar by Akiko Tsuchiya, "Mujeres españolas en el movimiento antiesclavista del siglo XIX: género, raza y cuestión colonial", presented by Elena Laurenzi. Tsuchiya is Professor Emerita of Hispanic Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was also an affiliated professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity. Her research areas include modern Spanish literature, women's and gender studies, 19th-century women's transnational literary and cultural networks, race and colonialism, as well as slavery and abolitionism in the Hispanic world.