Elena Catena López (12 November 1920 – 19 January 2012) was a Spanish university professor, philologist, publisher, and feminist.
[1][2] She was one of the first women to obtain a doctorate in Philosophy and Literature [es] at the Complutense University of Madrid, and the first to reach the position of vice dean of that same faculty.
Elena Catena López was born in Salamanca and moved to Madrid after the Spanish Civil War.
[1] In 2001, Castalia published Homenaje a Elena Catena (Tribute to Elena Catena),[3] a showcase of the author's work and its multiple facets, as well as her latest studies of Spanish literature and those who formed its committee of honor, such as Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Alonso Zamora Vicente [es], and Carlos Bousoño.
This was a nucleus of moderate and intellectual feminism that promoted the first gender studies in Spain and that, from the viewpoint of Christian democracy, established bridges with other, more left-wing feminist groups.