Nerea Aresti

Nerea Aresti lectures at the University of the Basque Country (UPV). She holds a PhD from the State University of New York and from the UPV, and specialises in gender history. In recent years her research has focused on the history of masculinities and of contemporary feminism. She is the author of Masculinidades en tela de juicio. Hombres y género en el primer tercio del siglo XX (2010) and Médicos, donjuanes y mujeres modernas. Los ideales de feminidad y masculinidad en el primer tercio del siglo XX (2001). Her most recent work is entitled “A Fight for Real Men: Gender and Nation-Building during the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship (1923–1930)”, published at the European History Quarterly. In 2018 she won the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea award for the best article published in 2017 for “El gentleman y el bárbaro. Masculinidad y civilización en el nacionalismo vasco (1893-1937)” (Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea). Aresti is a member of the Modern Experience research group at the University of the Basque Country.