Mary Nash (historian)

Mary Josephine Nash Baldwin (born 1947) is an Irish historian, professor and author living in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). She has specialized in the study of the history of women and feminism in Spain.

She has been a Spanish citizen since 1970 and currently resides between Barcelona and Caldas de Malavella, Spain. She was a pioneer in the introduction of the study of women's history and gender in Spanish universities. She is a specialist in women's history, gender history, cultural and gender representations, social movements, political cultures and cultural diversity in the twentieth century. Her pioneering research focused on women, citizenship and anti-fascist resistance during the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. She has published on feminism, gender and citizenship, political cultures and the changing boundaries between public and private. Her research has been dedicated to the history of women under the Franco dictatorship and she has also published on feminism during the Spanish Transition to democracy. Another area of research focuses on the intersection between discourses of otherness, cultural diversity, gender, and mass tourism as transformative scenarios of social and gender practices in Catalan and Spanish society.

Biography

In 1967 she graduated in History and French civilization at the National University of Ireland in Cork.