Acción y voces de mujer en el espacio público

insisting that, if it was once necessary to critique the myth of a successful Spanish transition to democracy, it has now become necessary to critique the opposing tendency to blame the transition for the country’s contemporary ills. His book is a model of how to write cultural history in its refusal to put things into tidy boxes. In particular, it demonstrates how attention to popular culture allows the historian to prise out the complexity of cultural processes. Jo Labanyi New York University jo.labanyi@nyu.edu