Roy-Féquière casts light on the Generación del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender class, and race in the articulation of early twentieth-century Puerto Rican identity.
The author explores the ways in which Jewish women contributed to the development of Viennese culture and participated in politics and cultural spheres. Areas of exploration include the education and family lives of Viennese Jewish girls and degrees of involvement of Jewish women in philanthropy and prayer, university life, Zionism, psychoanalysis and medicine, literature, and culture. The author also presents findings regarding stereotypes of Jewish gender and sexuality and the politics of anti-Semitism, as well as the impact of German culture, feminist dialogues, and bourgeois self-images.