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Making Things Public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War


They have high ranks in law enforcement agencies as well. They have managed to break the glass ceiling by moving up the ladder in the corporate world (Barnes, Davis, & Rogers, 2006)

Making Things Public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War


This strong social development in terms of better understanding sex roles occurred because females of the past dared to take a step in the right direction. They may have faced pain and despair, but in the end, they emerged victoriously (Gonzalez-Ruibal, 2007)

Making Things Public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War


Kennedy to give basic human and civil rights to them and other racially suppressed ranks of the American society. "The Weeping Woman" is created by Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso in 1937 on the canvas using the oil painting technique, depicted a historical, social reality that involved the suppression and killing of women and children during the Spanish civil war (Picasso, 1937)

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


However, it was equally unsurprising in 1625, when the collapse of those marriage negotiations brought Spain and England close to war that the Irish clerics on the Continent should then lobby the Spanish government to include an invasion of Ireland, under the command of the sons of the deceased earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, as part of their military strategy. Who would have become king of Ireland, in the event of such an invasion proving successful, was never spelt out, and it was at this juncture that the exiles toyed with the idea of Ireland becoming a republic (Hernan, 2009); perhaps modeled after the United Provinces rather than Venice, where a landed oligarchy would wield effective political authority, albeit under some remote monarch, or perhaps, like Savonarola, with Christ as king of the republic

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


, xxii, 1924-5)-leads Dr. Canny to suggest that their failure made the Elizabethan government realize that colonization was not the task of subjects but of the state; a realization which contributed to the official acceptance of the 'Sidney model ', although Sidney himself was unable to pursue his own policy consistently (Canny, 1976)

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


Moreover the truly scrupulous ones who recognized that reform meant ultimately a transformation in religious allegiance could draw solace from the endeavors of Bishop Lyon of Cork, and much was made of the supposedly capacity audiences who attended his Communion services of thanksgiving for deliverance from the Spanish Armada (Murphy, 2002). McDermott seems to have seen and read every pertinent document in London (he seems not to have ventured to records and libraries beyond), and many of them add considerably to our knowledge of how England prepared to resist the Spanish Armada (McDermott, 2006)

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


Pope Adrian IV had granted Ireland to the kings of England by the 1155 bull Laudabilitears a sort of medieval UN mandate with the objective of 'Christianizing' and civilizing the Irish. With the queen of England now an excommunicated heretic, was it not time that Ireland was given a new Catholic monarch? This idea would be developed further during the revolt of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone at the end of the century (Morgan, 2004)

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


It was to prevent the effective encirclement of England by the power of Spain that the government authorized a level of military expenditure in Ireland such as could not have been imagined even a decade earlier. At the height of the war effort, according to the calculations of John Mc Gurk, the strength of the army reached 21,000 men, and the total cost of maintaining this force came to £1,845,696 (Smyth, 2006)

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


At the height of the war effort, according to the calculations of John Mc Gurk, the strength of the army reached 21,000 men, and the total cost of maintaining this force came to £1,845,696 (Smyth, 2006). Most of the soldiers, as had previously been the case, came from the west of England and from Wales, but many of the new recruits, and their captains, assigned to the wars in Ireland were seasoned campaigners who had fought in the Netherlands or Brittany, rather than the raw conscripts who were more typical of the Irish service, and those placed in charge of the campaign, ranging from the queen's favorite Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, to Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, were people of the highest reputation in England' (Murphy, 2002)

Spanish-Irish Relations in the 16th


Spenser's recommendation that a colonel, with military subordinates, was necessary to make way for a comprehensive plantation also derived from the contemporary English under- standing of classical precedent, even if it came indirectly to Spenser through Sir Thomas Smith. Then also Spenser's suggestion that the cost of his scheme should be met primarily from composition rents to be levied on Irish land was consistent with the endeavor of successive governments, ever since the middle of the sixteenth century, to extend the scope of composition rents to the point where they would meet the cost of governing Ireland (Leerssen, 1986)

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For example, Bartlett notes that Ms. Kerney found and translated 240 (Spanish) documents that she used for her narrative, but based on Kerney's 140-page introduction, Barlett explains, "…in this reviewer's estimation the published documents do not at all bear out the extravagant claims she makes for them" (Bartlett, 1986, p

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Author John J. Silke writes that del Aguila's request for more men and supplies was met with a positive answer by Philip, but on the other hand, "…How was a bankrupt Spain to do so?" (Silke, 1965, p

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Author Paul State explains that Queen Elizabeth had attempted to put a stranglehold on Ireland going back ten years. Indeed by the 1590s, England had succeeded in "subduing Ireland, with one outstanding exception," and that was the heartland -- the province of Ulster (State, 2009, p

Spanish Women and Values Within


The feminist movement in Spain began in the early 1900s, even amidst the Civil War, and ultimately riding through the Franco-rule. Because of such conflicting historical events, feminism was a stunted cause, taking secondary priority to that of the class struggle that deluged Spain over the years (Davies)

Spanish Women and Values Within


Writer Carmen de Burgos highlights this modern woman in her novel La mujer moderna y sus derechos, which speaks of Spanish women in their attempt "[to] legitimate their claims for women's rights on the grounds of gender difference rather than in the paradigm of equality." (Ferran) Here, professor and essayist Maryellen Bieder states that Burgos' modern woman is the attempt at a novelist trying to self-consciously [address] the problems facing their sex…[in] new novels about New Women, a term coined in 1894 which rapidly acquired popular currency as a label for the energetic and independent woman struggling against the constraints of Victorian norms of feminity

Spanish Women and Values Within


Gender and Social Norms Soledad Puertolas discussed the female self, the feminist voice, and the female power in her essay La vida oculta. In her informal essay, Puertolas detailed concerns with gender issues, and the question of how women can display or exercise their self-assertion (Glenn)

Spanish Women and Values Within


Family is still important, as are relationships and masculine heroes. Women are prone to characterize their influence and leadership to a sort of "collaborative, caring, courageous, and reflective" trait (Kruse)

Spanish Women and Values Within


Because of such conflicting historical events, feminism was a stunted cause, taking secondary priority to that of the class struggle that deluged Spain over the years (Davies). At the turn of the twentieth century, feminist Spain branched off from its Western neighbors; the post-modern Spain was anxious to emphasize a difference between their post-modernism and the West's own interpretations thereof (Labanyi)

Spanish Women and Values Within


For the influential Spanish woman, there is the drive to be able to vote, but there is still recognition in her role as wife and mother of a household. The language is different for men and women, often indicating that the men have a better grip with influential roles (McKenna)

Spanish Women and Values Within


Film Direction and Media Leadership The Spanish film industry saw the beginning of a rise of female directors. The seat of the film director has largely been a "man's seat" (nationally and internationally), though the vanguard of women such as Ana Mariscal and Rosario Pi changed this ideology (Millan)