Matilde de la Torre: A feminist socialist in Republican Spain.

This article focuses on Matilde de la Torre, a socialist, feminist, and Republican politician in Spain's Second Republic, who was elected as a deputy for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1933 and 1936. De la Torre championed workers' rights, women's suffrage, anti-fascism, and democratic republicanism, while also producing a diverse body of political and cultural writings that engaged with Spain's turbulent political landscape. Despite her significant contributions—including leadership roles in women's antifascist organizations and advocacy during the Spanish Civil War—her legacy was marginalized during Franco's dictatorship and remains relatively obscure today. Recent scholarship has begun to reassess her work and political impact, highlighting her complex negotiation of feminism, socialism, and republicanism in early twentieth-century Spain.