María Xosé Queizán

Queizán in 2007

María Xosé Queizán (born 1939)^[1] is a Spanish writer and feminist.

Queizán become a prominent public figure of the Spanish feminist movement in the 1950s. She founded the Art and Essay Theatre Group of Vigo's Press association in 1959. She founded the Popular Galician Theatre in 1967.^[2] She was an early writer in Galician feminist literary criticism, subverting traditional masculine interpretations of literature in her 1980 essay Recuperemos as mans (transl. Let Us Recover Our Hands).^[3]

Queizán has written plays,^[4] essays, and fictional narratives about feminism.^[1] Queizán's interpretation of feminism is influenced by nationalist feminism, Marxist feminism, and the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir. She is critical of Galician nationalism for what she described as its inordinate focus on men at the expense of women's history in the region. Queizán has written about the subject of motherhood, proposing that the social role of motherhood is distinct from the biological aspects of child-rearing. She argues that men have greater access to the social aspects of parenthood while women are restricted by the biological aspects.^[1]

References

1. Rodríguez Rodríguez, Marisol (2011). "New Conceptions of Family in Contemporary Galician Narrative: Visions of Maternity in the Works of María Xosé Queizán and Teresa Moure". In Trotman, Tiffany Gagliardi (ed.). The Changing Spanish Family: Essays on New Views in Literature, Cinema and Theater. McFarland. pp. 59–72. ISBN 9780786487530.
2. Bermúdez, Silvia (2018). "Galician Women under Franco: Resistance, Clandestine Politics, and Poetry as Gendered Symbolic Capital". In Bermúdez, Silvia; Johnson, Roberta (eds.). A New History of Iberian Feminisms. University of Toronto Press. p. 279. ISBN 9781487520083.
3. Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena (2013). Galicia, A Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics. University of Wales Press. pp. 151–152. ISBN 9780708326541.
4. Rodríguez, Roberto Pascual (2010). Nogueira, Xesús; Lojo, Laura; Palacios, Manuela (eds.). Creation, Publishing, and Criticism: The Advance of Women's Writing. Peter Lang. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-4331-0954-6.