To celebrate the 75th anniversary of female suffrage in Spain, historians and social scientists from across European traveled to Seville in October 2006 for a conference on the history of female suffrage in their various countries. Among the accounts are the experience of winning women's vote in Latvia, from the 'houseman's vote' to full citizenship in the Netherlands, mothers of the nation in the Czech Republic, the difficult struggle for women's political rights in France, female suffrage in Malta, and female suffrage in Belgium caught between strategic positions and principles of equality. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)