See the PBS movie Ella Es El Matador (She is the Matador). For Spaniards—and for the world—nothing has expressed their country’s traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. A 1908 law barred women from the sport. This movie profiles two female matadors currently in the arena. These women are gender pioneers by necessity. But what emerges as their truest motivation is their sheer passion—for bullfighting and the pursuit of a dream.