Mary Nash (historian)

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

Biography
In 1967, she graduated from the National University of Ireland, and in 1975 she obtained a licentiate in philosophy and letters at the University of Barcelona. She received her doctorate there in 1977 in the specialty of modern history, with the thesis La mujer en las organizaciones políticas de izquierdas en España, 1931-1939. In 1982, she was one of the founders of the Women's Historical Research Center at the University of Barcelona.

In 1984, she won the Emilia Pardo Bazán prize for her work ''Presencia y protagonismo. Aspectos de la historia de las mujeres''. In 1995, the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded her the Creu de Sant Jordi. In 2008 she received the President Macià Working Medal. In 2010 she became a Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Granada.

She is one of the directors of Arenal (journal), has collaborated with UNESCO, and was president of the Spanish Association for Women's History Research (AEIHM) from 1991 to 1997.

She is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona.

Books

 * Mujer y movimiento obrero en España. Barcelona: Fontamara, 1981.
 * Experiencias desiguales: conflictos sociales y respuestas colectivas: siglo XIX. Susanna Tavera, Mary Nash. Madrid: Síntesis, 1994.
 * Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War. Denver: Arden Press, 1995.
 * Rojas: las mujeres republicanas en la Guerra Civil española. Madrid: Taurus, 1999 (Spanish version of Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War (1995); translated by Irene Cifuentes, as the basis of her doctoral thesis.
 * Mujeres en el Mundo. Historia, retos y movimientos. Madrid: Alianza, 2004.
 * Inmigrantes en nuestro espejo: inmigración y discurso periodístico en la prensa española. Barcelona: Icaria/Antrzyt, 2005.
 * Dones en transició: de la resistència política a la legitimitat feminista: les dones en la Barcelona de la Transició. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2007.
 * Trabajadoras: un siglo de trabajo femenino en Cataluña [1900-2000]. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010.