Austerity Policies and the Feminist Movement in Spain

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1 The former abortion law passed by Zapatero's government in 2010 guaranteed, among other measures, women's right to free abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy. In the end of 2013 the Minister of Justice, the conservative Alberto R. Gallardón, proposed a restrictive reform repealing the existing law. The minister resigned in 2014 after strong and massive mobilizations against his proposal—Ley Orgánica de Protección de los derechos del concebido y de la mujer embarazda.

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Eva Palomo

Eva Palomo is teaching and doing research in the Department of History and Economic Institutions and Moral Philosophy at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Madrid. She has a BA in Psychology and an MA in Gender Studies. Her PhD dissertation Feminism and socialism in the works of Sylvia Pankhurst: The debates on class, gender and sexuality in the context of British Suffragism (2013) has inspired her recently published book Sylvia Pankhurst: Sufragista y socialista (2015) as well as additional articles on feminist ideas in the nineteenth century. In 2003, she published the biography Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919). She has also taught workshops on the history of women's movements and feminist thought, equality policies and gender violence in non-formal education and has assessed high school programmes regarding coeducation, equality, and prevention of violence against women and girls. She has been active in social and political organizations especially in the feminist movement.