Introducción

Abstract

At the beginning of November 2011, a politically active group of women in this country who (had) held political positions, along with other women who had devoted their lives to the history and the historical and literary testimony of women, gathered in the Faculty of Philology to debate about the relationship between women and power. This seminar included some reflections on lives of women nowadays and in the past, their representation in history. The idea of dedicating a volum of the journal Quaderns was born in this seminar. The reason that unites both activities aims to provide further arguments and cases to the need to elaborate and gain insights into the relation between women and power to make themselves visible, disseminate their testimonies (rebellious or not) and also their proposals, their voices. Then we counted on the testimony of their own experience. Now, in this volume, we count on a series of articles and studies that will bring to light more data on this issue.