Isabel Pérez Molina has a BA in Modern History, an MA in Women’s History and a PhD in Early Modern History by the University of Barcelona. From 1996 to 2000 she was a lecturer in Spanish and European Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Currently she is a member and researcher at the Women’s Studies Centre Duoda at the University of Barcelona. She has published: Las mujeres ante la ley en la Cataluña moderna, 1997 (Women Before the Law in Early Modern Catalonia), Honour and Disgrace: Women and the Law in Early Modern Catalonia, 2001, and three chapters in the CD-Rom La diferència de ser dona. Recerca i ensenyament de la història, 2005 (The difference of being a woman. Researching and teaching History), among many other publications.