Marx's Minerva: sex, socialism and Soviet Russia in Matilde de la Torre's El banquete de Saturno: Novela social (1931).
Focusing on the 1931 novel El banquete de Saturno: Novela social by Matilde de la Torre, one of the first diputadas in Spain, this article explores the feminist subtexts of a narrative that centres on a workers' revolution dominated by male characters. In the novel, which is fundamentally a satirica...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 39 - 58 |
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