Democratising culture and building a new consciousness: the transformative female publishers of post-Franco Spain

Simó-Comas, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0608-2532 (2024) Democratising culture and building a new consciousness: the transformative female publishers of post-Franco Spain. In: Wilson, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-840X, Battershill, C., Heywood, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6641-2065, Joseph, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3045-9897, La Penna, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4197-0041, Southworth, H., Staveley, A. and Wilson Gordon, E. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 161-176. ISBN 9781399500340

Abstract/Summary

This chapter examines the editorial practices of Esther Tusquets (1936-2013) and Rosa Regàs (b. 1933), two women with intense anti-Francoist convictions, who, at the head of their respective publishing houses, Lumen and La Gaya Ciencia, defied the regime and contributed to constructing the symbolic layout of the democratic and modern Spain. In order to trace their profiles and assess the scope of their professional achievements, this chapter considers both their catalogues and the valuable autobiographical testimonies they left behind.