While attention to Spanish women artistswomen artists and intellectuals in the first third of the twentieth century has normally been directed to those connected to MadridMadrid, there were other contemporaneous groups of womenwomen thinkers and artists elsewhere in SpainSpain that encountered similar obstacles in their quest to pursue creativecreative interests in a man’s world. In Valencia there was painter, draughtswoman, designer and writer Manuela Ballester VilasecaBallester Vilaseca, Manuela (1908–1994), who contributed substantially to visual art and political activism. This article explores feminist dissidencefeminist dissidence in Ballester’s poeticPoetics work Cosas [‘Things’] (1981) by drawingdrawing on two theoretical frameworks which complement each other: on the one hand, ideas and concepts pertaining to the material turnmaterial turn (infrastructureinfrastructures, actant, art as network) and, on the other hand, theoretical elements more directly related to gendergender and spacespace. Ultimately, Vives posits Ballester and Cosas as reconfiguring the notion of female authorshipfemale authorship in the context of twentieth-century SpainSpain and beyond.