Alice Pestana, Four Times Nothing

Abstract

Alice Pestana (1860-1929) is a Portuguese feminist author, journalist, and pedagogue. Despite her intense cultural activity, and like many other female intellectuals and writers, she is virtually absent from Portuguese cultural histories. To fully understand the outstanding relevance of Pestana's life and work, we shall adopt a transnational Iberian perspective, which unveils her role as a central cultural mediator and active figure within Spanish most progressist intellectual circles at the beginning of the 20th century. We thus discover a pioneering feminist woman through her public interventions and literary texts, such as the feminist narrative "Genoveva Montaña", translated into Spanish and published by La España Moderna in 1900.