The Amerindians are the original inhabitants of the Americas and their descendants. In 1492 , the explorer Christopher Columbus expects to meet the West Indies as he has just landed in America. Because of this error, we continue to use the term “Indians” to refer to people of the New World . With the work of the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in the early xvi th century , there was talk of “Americas”, in honor of Italian [...]

The achievement of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005 cannot be understood without acknowledging recent transformations in the institution of the family and the role played by women in Spanish society. Spanish families have experienced considerable changes due to women’s greater incorporation into the paid labour force. Traditional gender values imposed during the Franco regime [...]