Description

What role did women of Basque origin play in the Atlantic
Revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries? This book shows how
Basque women, both in the Basque Country and in America, played a significant
role in the warlike, revolutionary and disruptive processes of the period. We
cannot forget that several of the heroines of the American independence
processes came from Basque families. Meanwhile, on the other side of the
Atlantic Ocean, women in the Basque Country also had to face the warlike context
of the Napoleonic Wars and the collapse of the Ancien Régime.

The book compiles a multitude of female experiences and
their performance in difficult times: being victims of war, active subjects in
the war conflict, allies or detractors of one or another political cause, etc.
In short, this book banishes the traditional secondary role attributed to women
within these processes, critically redefining their value.

The book also analyses the discourses on femininity and the
virile woman developed within the Atlantic framework and the role played by the
Basques in the independence of America.