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Ever since they first appeared in the public sphere, around 1840, and until the First Republic was proclaimed in 1873, Spanish republican activists never ceased to spread in newspapers and political pamphlets the idea that a republic would entail a “supreme synthesis of the political contradictions of our century” and “the conciliation of all hatred and all rivalry, the harmony of all interests.” This article sets out to study what may be dubbed the “utopian dimension” of the collective imagination of Spanish republicanism (the aspiration to total political and social unity) and its consequences for the political culture and practice of Spanish republicans.

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Feminist theories on the public/private divide thrived in United States' academia from the 1960s, closely linking the private with a domestic sphere of reproduction, household tasks and family relations. Thus, started a rich and prolific historiographical trend that has produced important theoretical and methodological debates and has fostered diverse research lines in different national academic contexts. The public/private binary continues to be a strong analytic framework, although overlapped by contesting and diverse references. The present bibliographic revision intends to trace the main debates and ways of approaching the topic, focusing on the 19 th Century, that have taken place in the United States, Britain, France and Spain.

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